All MANDER, Karel van's oil paintings



ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
8038 The Continence of Scipio sg The Continence of Scipio sg 1600 Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

MANDER, Karel van
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 Artists to : | Simeon Solomon | Christian Schilbach | Giuseppe Maria Crespi | Philippe de Momper | LAMA, Giulia |