Shaping the Netherlandish Canon
Subtitle: Karel Van Mander's Schilder-Boeck
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780226519593
Subjects: Prints & printmaking; Individual Painters And Their Work; Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Biography/Autobiography; Criticism; European; Art / History / European; Mander, Carel van; Religious; 1548-1606; Art; Belgium; Biography; Knowledge; Mander, Carel van,; Netherlands; Painters; Schilderboek
First sentence: Modern scholars have characterized the Schilder-Boeck as a literary anomaly, arguing that the composition of a book on schilderconst could be no more than an indeterminate project in 1600.