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 Het schilder-boeck author De grondt der edel vrij schilderconst 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