b. 1548, Meulebeke, d. 1606, Amsterdam Dutch painter, poet, and writer. Born of a noble family, after much wandering he settled in Haarlem in 1583 and founded a successful academy of painting with Hendrik Goltzius and Cornelis Cornelisz (1562 C 1638). He is best known for The Book of Painters (1604), which contains about 175 biographies of Dutch, Flemish, and German painters of the 15th C 16th centuries; it became for the northern countries what Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters had been for Italy.   Related Paintings of MANDER, Karel van :. | Tingzhong of Krishna and Lade Ha | The Despoiling of Christ | Annunciation | In the Country | Rosita Mauri, study |
Related Artists:
William Griffith
1866-1940
gianbattista moroni
1570 bergamo accademia carrara
Jan Olis
painted Frohliche Gesellschaft in 1644