Person Bio General: Carel van Mander, Carel also spelled Karel, (born May 1548, Meulebeke, Flanders, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]—died Sept. 2, 1606, Amsterdam [Neth.]), 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. Sources Title Role De grondt der edel vrij schilderconst author Het schilder-boeck author Creations Title Type Karel Mander, het schilder-boeck preface and index Record Information from the Getty ULANMander, Karel van, I (1548 - 1606 (Amsterdam))Dutch artist and art historian, 1548-1606