The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel van Mander (1548-1606), Dutch painter, poet and biographer, was born of a noble family at Meulebeke. Download high resolution version (1288x703, 178 KB)The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Download high resolution version (1288x703, 178 KB)The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Events Mary I of Scotland sent to France Births September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616) September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626) Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624) Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (burned at the stake) 1600 (died 1600) Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general... Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill pretender Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Meulebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. ...

He studied under Lucas de Heere at Ghent, and in 1568-1569 under Pieter Vlerick at Kortrijk. The next five years he devoted to the writing of religious plays for which he also painted the scenery. Then followed three years in Rome (1574-1577), where he is said to have been the first to discover the catacombs. On his return journey he passed through Vienna, where, together with the sculptor Hans Mont, he made the triumphal arch for the entry of the emperor Rudolph. This page is about the Belgian city. ... Kortrijk (French: Courtrai) is a city and municipality located in West Flanders, Belgium. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Vienna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II Rudolph IIs personal imperial crown, later crown of the Austrian Empire Rudolf II Habsburg was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary. ...

After many vicissitudes caused by war, loss of fortune and plague, he settled at Haarlem where, in conjunction with Goltzius and Cornelisz, he founded a successful academy of painting. His fame is, however, principally based upon his Schilderboeck, a voluminous biographical work on the paintings of various epochs--a book that has become for the northern countries what Vasari's Lives of the Painters became for Italy. It was completed in 1603 and published in 1604, in which year Van Mander removed to Amsterdam, where he died in 1606. Haarlem is a city in the west of the Netherlands, capital of the North Holland province. ... Hendrik Goltzius (1558 - January 1, 1617), Dutch painter and engraver, was born at Millebrecht, in the duchy of Julich. ... Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°89E - 52°37N Website www. ...

The Schilderboeck may be perused in the Digitale Bibliotheek der Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL).

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The Schilderboeck in the DNBL [1]