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 :. | Estudo para Flor Brasileira | The Adimari Cassone | Regent ashes of the old men house | The Council of Nicaea i,Melkite icon from the 17 century | dining room |
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