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MANDER, Carel van (1548-1606). Het Schilder-Boeck waer in voor eerst de leerlustige Ieught den grondt der Edel vrye Schilderkonst in verschyden deelen wort voor gedragen. Amsterdam: J.P. Wachter, 1618-16-17-16.
4 parts in one, 4 (235 x 166mm). Engraved general title and a frontispiece to part 3 (which may not belong), 2 plates, 2 portraits of the author and 67 portraits of artists. (Title a little soiled and with 2 repairs, just touching the engraved area, some dampstaining, a little heavier at the end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled).
First illustrated edition -- of the first comprehensive art history north of the Alps. Carel van Mander, known as the Vasari of the North, was apprenticed as a young man to Lucas de Heere who taught him painting and poetry in equal measure and in the early 1570s, before his four-year sojourn in Rome, he wrote six or seven plays which enjoyed a great success. On his return to the North he established himself at Haarlem where he wrote Het Schilder-Boeck. The greater part of the book is devoted to the lives of painters from earliest times up to Mander's own day with the emphasis on Dutch and Flemish painters. Beginning with Hubert and Jan Van Eyck he traces the development of Netherlandish art (with biographies of Bosch, Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Massys, Pieter Breughel, among others) through to his own contemporaries, Hans Vriedeman de Vries and Hendrik Goltzius, inter alios. The work begins with a long didactic poem on the art of painting and ends with an examination of the iconography of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The first edition, unillustrated, appeared in 1604. Schlosser-Magnino p.308; Graesse IV, 360.
4 parts in one, 4 (235 x 166mm). Engraved general title and a frontispiece to part 3 (which may not belong), 2 plates, 2 portraits of the author and 67 portraits of artists. (Title a little soiled and with 2 repairs, just touching the engraved area, some dampstaining, a little heavier at the end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled).
First illustrated edition -- of the first comprehensive art history north of the Alps. Carel van Mander, known as the Vasari of the North, was apprenticed as a young man to Lucas de Heere who taught him painting and poetry in equal measure and in the early 1570s, before his four-year sojourn in Rome, he wrote six or seven plays which enjoyed a great success. On his return to the North he established himself at Haarlem where he wrote Het Schilder-Boeck. The greater part of the book is devoted to the lives of painters from earliest times up to Mander's own day with the emphasis on Dutch and Flemish painters. Beginning with Hubert and Jan Van Eyck he traces the development of Netherlandish art (with biographies of Bosch, Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Massys, Pieter Breughel, among others) through to his own contemporaries, Hans Vriedeman de Vries and Hendrik Goltzius, inter alios. The work begins with a long didactic poem on the art of painting and ends with an examination of the iconography of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The first edition, unillustrated, appeared in 1604. Schlosser-Magnino p.308; Graesse IV, 360.