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Remarkable Spanish theoretical treatise on the liberal art of Spain

BUTRON, Juan Alonso de.
Discursos apologeticos, en que se defiende la ingenvidad del arte de la pintura; Que es liberal, de todos derechos, no inferior a las sie te que comunmente te se reciben. De Don Ivan de Butron, professor de ambos derechos. A Don Fernando de la Hoz, gentilhombre de la casa de su Magestad.

With richly illustrated engraved frontispiece in architectural setting with three coats of arms by J. Schorquens.

With richly illustrated engraved frontispiece in architectural setting with three coats of arms by J. Schorquens.



Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1626. 4to. 19th century marbled calf with 5 ornamental gilt flowers and red morocco title-label on spine, gilt fillets and border on both sides, blue marbled endpapers, marbled edges.  With richly illustrated engraved frontispiece in architectural setting with three coats of arms by J. Schorquens. (36), 122, (37) pp., last page blank.

Original edition of an important treatise on the value and quality of the art of painting, containing many interesting observations and remarks on the fine arts and the connection with the other liberal arts, such as Dialectica, Rhetorica, Aritmetica, etc. composed in the form of 14 discourses. Juan Alonso de Butron, a jurist born in Najera and living in the first half of the 17th century, dedicated his work to Don Fernando de la Hoz, 'Gentilhombre de la Casa de su Magestad', dated 1 October 1626.
After a prologue, a laudatory poem by Joseph de Valdivielso, a table of authors mentioned and a summary of the discourses, the work itself is on pp. 1-122 (123) and is completed by an index of 36 pp. An edition of some parts from this work, supplemented with some remarks on and a plea for a tax exemption for painters, appeared in 1634. The beautiful frontispiece is engraved by Juan Schorquens (Jan Schorkens), a Dutch engraver who travelled to Madrid in the beginning of the 17th century to work mainly for the printers and publishers there from 1618 to 1630 ("on cite de lui de remarquables frontispieces" (Bénézit, IX, p. 432).

Very good copy of this important theoretical work on painting with some contemporary annotations in manuscript and the bookplates of J. Souris and of Joaquin Abaurre pasted to the verso of the front cover.
Palau 38161; Brunet, I, cols. 1430-1; Graesse, I, p. 584.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art General  Drawing & Painting  Spanish 

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