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Karel van Mander (May
1548–
September 2,
1606),
Flemish painter,
poet and
biographer, was born of a noble family at
Meulebeke.
He studied under
Lucas de Heere at
Ghent, and in 1568-1569 under
Pieter Vlerick at
Kortrijk. The next five years he devoted to the writing of religious plays for which he also painted the scenery. Then followed three years in
Rome (1574-1577), where he's said to have been the first to discover the catacombs. On his return journey he passed through
Vienna, where, together with the sculptor
Hans Mont, he made the triumphal arch for the
royal entry of the
emperor Rudolph.
After many vicissitudes caused by war, loss of fortune and plague, he settled at
Haarlem where, in conjunction with
Hendrik Goltzius and
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, he founded a successful academy of painting. His fame is, however, principally based upon his
Schilderboeck, a voluminous biographical work on the paintings of various epochs—a book that has become for the northern countries what
Vasari's
Lives of the Painters became for Italy. It was completed in 1603 and published in 1604, in which year Van Mander removed to
Amsterdam, where he died in 1606. He was the master of
Frans Hals, although his influence on his pupil doesn't seem strong - Hals certainly disregarded van Mander's conventional belief that
history painting was the highest of the
hierarchy of genres.
Van Mander was famously influential on the art writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Amongst others,
Cornelis de Bie and
Arnold Houbraken imitated his
Schilderboeck.
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