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Karel van Mander

1548 - 1606

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Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembered as a biographer of Early Netherlandish painters and Northern Renaissance artists in his Schilder-boeck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel van Mander has received more than 115,845 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Karel van Mander is the 309th most popular painter (down from 306th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Belgium and the 19th most popular Belgian Painter.

Karel van Mander is most famous for his book "Het Schilderboek" (The Book of Painters) which was published in 1604. This book is a biographical dictionary of Flemish and Dutch painters, and it is the first book to provide a comprehensive list of artists who worked in the Netherlands.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karel van Mander ranks 309 out of 2,023. Before him are David Alfaro Siqueiros, Adriaen van Ostade, Daniele da Volterra, Viktor Vasnetsov, Paulus Potter, and Alexej von Jawlensky. After him are Bernardino Luini, Cosimo Rosselli, Luigi Russolo, George Hendrik Breitner, Gerard David, and Grant Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1548, Karel van Mander ranks 6. Before him are Giordano Bruno, Simon Stevin, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francisco Suárez, and Vincenzo Scamozzi. After him are Bianca Cappello, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Honda Tadakatsu, Palma il Giovane, Catherine of Cleves, and Fatma Sultan. Among people deceased in 1606, Karel van Mander ranks 4. Before him are Guy Fawkes, False Dmitry I, and Justus Lipsius. After him are Stephen Bocskai, Alessandro Valignano, Guru Arjan, Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Turibius of Mogrovejo, and Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Karel van Mander ranks 112 out of 1,190. Before him are Joseph Plateau (1801), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858), André Grétry (1741), Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1673), Gilles Binchois (1400), and Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (1837). After him are Morris (1923), Yves Chauvin (1930), Elio Di Rupo (1951), Frans Snyders (1579), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), and Henri Vieuxtemps (1820).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Karel van Mander ranks 19. Before him are Hubert van Eyck (1366), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), Joachim Patinir (1480), Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Félicien Rops (1833), and Pieter Claesz (1596). After him are Frans Snyders (1579), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), and Jan Matsys (1509).

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