Complex sentence: The first part of the booklet makes the traditional comparisons between the value and ranking of painting, sculpture and poetry whereby he liberally borrows anecdotes on famous painters from antiquity up to the 17th century from van Mander's Schilder-boeck.
Split into simpler sentences: The first part of the booklet makes the traditional comparisons between the value and ranking of painting, sculpture and poetry. In this part he liberally borrows anecdotes on famous painters from antiquity up to the 17th century from van Mander's Schilder-boeck.