Bermudez[64] mentions Fray Martin de Palencia as having
executed a volume in a fine handwriting and with beautiful miniatures
for the monastery of Saso. Thus we see there were numerous miniaturists
in Spain in the latest years of the existence of the art that had been
imported chiefly from Italy.
[63] Fr. Francisco de los Santos, _Description breve del Monasterio de S.
Lorenzo el Real del Escorial_, 24.
[64] Diccionario, iv. 24.
After most of these great choir-books had been finished there were still
others in progress. In 1583 Giovanni Battista Scorza of Genoa, who is
celebrated in the "Galleria" of the Cavaliero Marini, was invited by the
King to take part in his great choir-book scheme. Scorza was then
thirty-six years of age, and in the height of his reputation as a
painter of small animals and insects. After a little time he returned to
Genoa, where he lived to be ninety years old. He had a brother,
Sinibaldo, who was equally skilful in miniature, and especially in
scenes from history. The Scorzas were pupils of Luca Cambiaso. It may be
noticed that all this work in miniature, although so late in its own
history, is accomplished before the greatest names in Spanish painting
are known. Josefo Ribera was born in 1588; Zurbaran in 1598; Velasquez
in 1599; Alonzo Cano in 1601; Murillo in 1617.
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