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CORNELIS DE BIE

1971. Engr. titlepage, 586 pp. and 103 plates of portraits. Bound in half leather.= Reprint of the original edition Antwerp, 1661

This edition has been provided with an Introduction in English by G.Th. 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.