El Arte de la Pintura/ The Art of Painting (Arte Grandes Temas / Art Great Subjects)

by Francisco Pacheco

Spanish

Genres: Art

Paperback

First published June 18, 2010

About the author

Francisco Pacheco del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the "Vasari of Seville": voluble and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions.