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Schilder-boeck
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The Schilder-Boeck is a book by the art historian Karel van Mander written in 1604.
It was actually compiled from three books in total; the first was a translation from Giorgio Vasari's list of artist biographies called the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, the second was a similarly styled "Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters", and the third was a translation of Ovid's stories Metamorphoses followed by an explanation of figures.
Karel de boeck biography books
The book sold well, though Karel van Mander died quite soon after publication. A second posthumous edition was produced in 1618, and it is this second edition which has been translated by Hessel Miedema into English with a facsimile of the original and 5 volumes of notes on the text.
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Karel van Mander's "Schilder-boeck" (Painter book), written in Mannerist Dutch and published in Ha