KAREL VAN MANDER - LIVES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS NETHERLANDISH AND GERMAN PAINTERS

MIEDEMA, HESSEL

1994-1999. Complete set of 6 volumes (28 x 20 cm. VII, 510; XV, 331; XV, 290; XIV, 234; XIII, 267; XXXIV, 237 pp. of text and 684 ills. Cloth bound with dust jacket

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.