PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, ANTONIO. El Museo Pictórico y Escuela Óptica. 2 engraved allegorical additional titles and 17 folding plates of classical architectural orders, perspective, and artistic anatomy, including 2 reversed full-length Vesalian figures. xvi, 396; viii, 343, [1]; [345]-756 pages. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Folio, 292x201 and 301x201 mm, contemporary tree sheep gilt, not uniform, spine ends, joints, and cover edges rubbed, cover corners worn through; first volume has dark stain in upper margins mainly at beginning and end including the plates, and worming in blank lower inner corners through first half of volume, text in second volume browned with dampstaining in upper outer corners toward beginning, and light soiling and foxing on the plates. Signature of Miguel Sosa on Volume 1 letterpress title. Madrid: Sancha, 1795-97-96
Work first published in 1715-24 combining treatises on artistic theory and practice with a biographical dictionary of Spanish painters, sculptors, and architects. Arntzen & Rainwater H111 (original edition, "a fundamental Spanish source"); Palau 210735 (this edition).
