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Het schilder boeck, waer in voor eerst de leerlustighe jeught den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen. Daer nae in dry deelen t'leven der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden en nieuwen tyds

Haerlem (Alckmaer)
P. Van Wesbusch (printed by Jacob de Meester)
1604

2 parts in 1 vol. in-4to, [16], 300, [5] ; [8], 136, [2] ff, each part with an engraved title-page (by Maetham after Van Mander). With an engraved portrait of the author (by Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius). Printed in gothic script, in Dutch. Age-toned due to paper quality, unobtrusive damp staining in the corner of a few lvs. Still a good and complete copy. Old calf binding, rubbed, spine and corners worn, red edges. The second part: Uutlegghing op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ovij Nasonis .. Seer dienstich den Schilders, Dichters en Constbeminders...

Rare first edition of this important work by Carel van Mander (1548-1606), one of the highlights of Dutch renaissance literature, and the first work on the theory and history of art to be published in the Netherlands. It treats the lives of classical, Italian, and Dutch painters, including Van Mander's contemporaries Hendrik Goltzius, Abraham Bloemaert, Jacques de Gheyn, David Vinckeboons, etc. The second part discusses the illustration of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and is still an important source for our knowledge of the iconography of the period.
Ref. Bibl. Belg., IV, M 103; Arntzen/Rainwater H69; Hollstein XI, Matham, 367, XXIII, Saenredam, 127.
Provenance:
modern bookplate Firmijn Van der Loo ; private collection in Meulebeke (native town of Karel van Mander)

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VAN MANDER, Karel