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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
P. Van Wesbusch
1604

4to, engr. title-page, [16], 300, [1], [3], [1], (1 = blanco with ms] leaves added 'Uitlegghingh op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ovidij Nasonis', engr. title, 7 (compl. with M4 = Dedication to Gedeon Fallet), 136, 2 leaves. Added the portrait of Carel Van Mander after title leave. Some old notes and a few waterstains. Contemporary vellum binding (new endpapers). Good copy

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

Arts

VAN MANDER, Karel