Commentary
Year: 2022

Exhortation, or Admonition to up and coming young Painters"1In claiming that schilder-const (art of painting) is a noble art, Van Mander identifies it as a mode of applied learning, distinct from more mundane artisanal practices requiring lesser skills.This is to say, as becomes evident throughout the Grondt and the Schilder-Boeck, that it combines dexterity of both hand and mind.In Cornelis Kiliaan, Etymologicum teutonicae linguae sive dictionarium Teutonico-latinum (Antwerp: Jan Moretus, 1599)