Excerpt from Annals of the Artists of Spain, Vol. 3 of 4 Bartolomé Roman was born at Madrid in r 596. He studied painting first in the school of Vincencio Carducho, and afterwards in that of Velazquez. Few Castilian painters, says Cean Bermudez, equalled him in power of drawing, and in richness and har mony of colouring. But his success was by no means commensurate with his merits, and his works were not often to be met with. One of his most important pictures seems to have been a large composition in the sacristy of the church of the Incarnation, representing the marriage-feast, in the parable, whence a guest was ejected for appearing without a wedding garment.1 At Alcala de Henares the convent of San Diego had some pictures by him, amongst which was a St. Anthony that had been begun by Alonso Cano. 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.