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| Author | Karel van Mander |
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| Original title | Het Schilder-Boeck Waer in haer ghestalt, aerdt ende wesen, de leer-lustighe Jeught in verscheyden Deelen in Rijm-dicht wort voor ghedraghen; Daer nae in dry delen 't leven der vermaerde doorluchtighe Schilders des ouden, en nieuwen tyd: Eyntlyck d'wtlegghinhe op den METAMORPHOSEON Pub. Ouidij Nasonis; Oock daer beneffens wtbeeldinghe der figuren. Alles dienstich en nut den schilders Const beminders en dichters. Oock alle staten van menschen. |
| Translator | Hessel Miedema (to modern Dutch and to English) |
| Illustrator | Original edition had only a few plates |
| Language | Dutch |
| Subject | Artist biographies |
| Genre | Art history, Biography, Art theory, Art education |
| Publisher | First edition: Passchier Wesbusch, Haarlem Second edition: Jacob Pietersz Wachter, Amsterdam |
Publication date | First edition: 1604 Second edition: 1618 |
| Publication place | Dutch Republic |
Published in English | 1994-1997 (translation) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover), Online version of original text available from the DBNL |
| ISBN | 90-70288-85-0 , ISBN 90-70288-91-5, ISBN 90-70288-92-3, ISBN 90-70288-93-1, ISBN 90-70288-94-X, ISBN 90-70288-95-8 |
Het Schilder-Boeck or Schilderboek is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into English as 'The Book of Painters' or 'The Book of (or on) Painting' and sometimes as 'The Book on Picturing'. Het Schilder-Boeck consists of six parts and is considered one of the principal sources on the history of art and art theory in the 15th and 16th century Low Countries. The book was very well received and sold well. Karel van Mander died two years after its publication. A second posthumous edition, which included a brief, anonymous biography of van Mander was published in 1618. This second edition was translated by Hessel Miedema into English and published in 1994-1997 together with a facsimile of the original and five volumes of notes on the text.