Author: BIE, CORNELIS DE. Lemmens, G. (introd.).
Title: Het Gulden Cabinet van de Edel Vry Schilderconst.
Description: Antwerpen, 1662 [Reprint Soest, Davaco Publishers, 1971]. 15, 585,[2] pp. B./w. title-plate & [103] b./w. plts (portraits). Orig. brown h.leather, very light shelfwear. (Davaco collection). Copy of the standard edition with brown half leather binding. - Reprint of: Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const [...], waer-inne begrepen is den ontsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne naer het leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreucken. (Antwerpen, Juliaen van Montfort, 1662). - - With an introduction in English by G. Lemmens. - - Cornelis de Bie (1627- after 1711) was a notary in his native town of Lier who made his mark in history or more precisely in art history, with his Gulden Cabinet, a series of biographies and panegyrics on artists. His subjects are most South Netherlandish painters, sculptors and architects of the 17th and late 16th centuries.

Keywords: Dutch Art 14th century 15th century 16th century Nederlandse kunst 14e eeuw 15e eeuw 16e eeuw