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Classic Dutch art history

MANDER, Karel van.
Het schilderboeck waerin voor eerst de leerlustige-jeught den gront der edele vrye schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor gedragen. Daer na in drij deelen 't leven der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden ende nieuwen tydts. Eyndlyck d'uytlegginghe op den Metamorphoseon Pub. Ovidii Nasonis. Met uytbeeldinge der figuren. Alles dienstich ende nut den schilders, const-beminders ende dichters, en alle andere staten van menschen. Hier is op nieu bygevoecht het leven des autheurs.

Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in <I>Bibl. Belg</I>. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text.

Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in <I>Bibl. Belg</I>. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text.

Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in <I>Bibl. Belg</I>. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text.

Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in <I>Bibl. Belg</I>. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text.



Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravestein for Jacob Pietersz. Wachter & Cornelis Lodewijcksz. vander Plasse, 1616-1618. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Richly engraved allegorical title by N. Lastman after Warnaar van de Valkert, full-page engraved portrait of the author by Nic. Lastman after the portrait by Saenredam for the first edition, printer's devices of De Wachter, Van Ravesteyn and Vander Plasse on the separate titles (see the reprod. in Bibl. Belg. IV, p. 47) and some fine woodcut vignettes and initials in the text. (16), 22, (2); (4), 213, (3); (8), 122, (2); (8) lvs.

Second edition of Karel van Mander's famous Schilderboeck, a history of painting with  the lives of artists up to 1603, improved on the first edition of 1603-1604, with the indexes corrected and completed and the work enlarged with a biography of the author who had died in 1606. This is probably by van Mander's younger brother Adam, but has also been attributed to the famous poet Gerbrandt Adriaansz. Bredero (see: Miedema, KvM, p. 1-2), who certainly contributed the poem on the last page of the work with his famous 'pun' on Van Mander's name: "Karel die een Man der Mannen wel mocht heten". The title and portrait are newly engraved  for this second edition after Saenredam's portrait used in the first.
It is in 6 parts, each with its own title. The first consists of  dedications, a wide range of laudatory poems and a  verse instruction for the young in the art of painting, with index. The other parts deal with art in the ancient world, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, Ovid's Metamorphoses and their illustration, the last of considerable iconographical interest.

Part 1: After the general title with the imprint 'Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Wachter, 1618', the dedication by Jacob Wachter to Volkaert Overlander and Jean ten Grootenhuys, both magistrates of Amsterdam (f. 2r-v), the portrait of Van Mander, the preface (f. 4r-5v), laudatory poems by Petrus Scriverius (1604), P. Bor, Petrus van Veen, Bartjens, Zacharias Heyns, Israel Jacobsz. tot Hoorn, J. Detringh, J. Targier, Schrevelius, Jan Orlers, S. van Delmanhorst, Jacob Duym, J. van Mosscher, P.D. Ketelaer van Coolscamp, P.C. Ketel (4x) and some others signed by a motto (f. 6-16), follows the introductory part: a complete painting course for the youth in verse (only to be found in the first and second editions) (f. 1-22), concluded by the index on the next 5 pages.
Part 2: Separate title: Het leven der oude antycke doorluchtighe schilders, soo wel Egyptenaren, Griecken als Romeynen ... Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijcksz. vander Plasse, 1617. ((4) ff., f. 1-25).
Part 3: Separate title: Het leven der moderne, oft dees-tijtsche doorluchtighe Italiaensche schilders ... het tweede boeck. Amsterdam, Vander Plasse, 1616. (f. 26-119).
Part 4: Separate title: Het leven der doorluchtighe Nederlandtsche, en hooghduytsche schilders ... Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteyn for Vander Plasse, 1617 (colophon: 1618: f. (3)v). (f. 120-213, (1-3)).
Part 5: Separate title: Uytleggingh op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ovidii Nasonis ... Amsterdam, Vander Plasse, 1616. (f. (1-8), 1-109).
Part 6: Separate title: Uytbeeldinge der figueren: waer in te sien is, hoe d'heydenen hun goden uytghebeeldt, en onderscheyden hebben ... Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteyn for Vander Plasse, 1616. (f. 110-122, (1-2)). This last part - a discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses  and how to illustrate them - which here is also in a corrected and better edition, is today still of considerable iconographical interest.
Added to this second edition is the life of the author: "'t Geslacht, de geboort, plaets, tydt, leven, ende wercken van Karel van Mander, schiler , en poeet, mitsgaders zyn overlyden, ende begraeffenis" on 8 unnumbered lvs.

Good copy of this important work on the history of Dutch painting with 18th-ownership's entry of 'G. van Hoek' on the verso of the title and interesting early 17th-century annotations on the first fly-leaf.- (Hinges weak).
Bibl. Belg. IV, M. 104; Miedema, Karel van Mander. Het bio-bibliogr. materiaal (1972), p. 19-20; Facs. ed. of the first ed.: Utrecht 1969, Introd. (and review by Miedema in: Simiolus, 4 (1970), p. 49-53).

Related Subjects: Biography  Drawing & Painting  Dutch 

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