MANDER, KAREL VAN. Miedema, Hessel.
Karel van Mander. The lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, [from the first edition of the Schilder-boeck (1603 - 1604). Preceded by the lineage, circumstances and place of birth, life and works of Karel van Mander, painter and poet and likewise his death and burial, from the second edition of the Schilder-boeck (1616 - 1618)].
Doornspijk, Davaco Publishers, 1994-1999. 6 vols. VII, 510; XV, 331; XV, 290; XIV, 234; XIII, 267; XXXIV, 237 pp. 684 b./w. ills. Orig. uniform hardcovers, d./j. - New set !Complete set of 6 volumes: Vol. 1: The text; Vol. 2: Commentary on Biography and Lives / fol. 196r01-211r35; Vol. 3: Lives / fol. 211r36-236v36; Vol. 4: Commentary on Lives / fol. 236v37-261v44; Vol. 5: Commentary on Lives / fol. 262r01-291r47; Vol. 6: Commentary on Lives / fol. 291v01-end. - The series consists of a new edition of Karel van Mander's descriptions of the lives of the Netherlandish painters in his Schilder-boeck (Book onPainting) of 1603-1604: Het Leven der Doorluchtighe Nederlandtsche, en Hoogh-duytsche Schilders (Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters) - fols. 196r-300v. This edition has been supplemented by the biography of Karel van Mander himself, which appeared in the second, otherwise unaltered, 1616-1618 edition of the Schilder-boeck.In Volume 1, the text is reproduced in facsimile; a new paraphrase of this text in modern Dutch by Hessel Miedema has been translated into English. This volume has bibliographical introductions and an extensive index.

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