History of the Spanish School of Painting

Excerpt from The History of the Spanish School of Painting: To Which Is Appended, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Miniature Illumination It appears somewhat astonishing, that in the present advanced state of knowledge relative to the Arts so little research should have been made, and so little notice taken of, the Spanish school of painting; for within a very few years it has remained as a sealed book to the rest of Europe, which I can only account for in the lamentably convulsed condition of the Peninsula through a long series of years, added to the extreme jealousy the Spaniards have ever manifested in allowing the masterpieces of native art to be taken out of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.