Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting

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Jusepe Martínez Edited by Zahira VélizTranslated by David McGrath and Zahira Véliz Jusepe Martínez’s Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting (ca. 1673–75), though little known today, was highly influential on art, artists, and artistic practice and theory in Spain long after its publication. This volume is the first English translation of the Discourses, which, while circulated in manuscript copies, was not even published until the mid-nineteenth century.Martínez wrote the Discourses toward the…