1548 – 1606

Dutch Mannerist painter, poet, and writer whose fame is principally based upon a biographical work on painters - Het Schilder-boeck (1604; "The Book of Painters") - that has become for the northern countries what Giorgio Vasari 's Lives of the Painters became for Italy. This is the first systematic account of the lives of northern European artists, and our only source of information about some of them. Born of a noble family at Meulebeke in Flanders, van Mander studied under Lucas de Heere at Ghent and in 1568-69 under Pieter Vlerick at Courtrai and Tournai.Show more

4 artworks in collection