On Concept of Taste in Francisco Martínez D’Acosta’s Prontuario artist- co: A Forgotten Chapter of the Ibero American Aesthetics

Abstract

Towards the end of colonial era, Nuevo Reino de Granada received Enlightenment influence on the field of aesthetics and art theory. Francisco Marti?nez D’Acosta, a Spaniard clergyman, played an outstanding role in the introduction of new aesthetical ideas through his book Prontuario artistic; o? diccionario manual de las Bellas Artes, pintura, escultura, arquitectura, grabado & c. (Madrid, 1787). This article focuses on the analysis of the concept of taste D'Acosta Marti?nez developed in this book defines the originality of its treatment and study the possible influence of the philosophers of the encyclopedia, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Benito Jero?nimo Feijoo and several Spanish authors of treatises on art.