Mander, Karel van

Mander, Karel van kä´rəl vän män´dər [key], 1548–1606, Flemish painter and humanist. He wrote plays on biblical themes and translated from the classics. He is known primarily for his biography of painters,Het Schilder-Boeck(1604; tr.Dutch and Flemish Painters,1936), which, despite its inaccuracies, is generally an adequate early source on Northern painters.

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