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CAREL See also:VAN See also:MANDER (1548-1606) , Dutch painter, poet and biographer, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family at Meulebeke . He studied under See also:Lucas de Heere at See also:Ghent, and in 1568–1569 under Pieter Vlerick at Kortryck . The next five years he devoted to the See also:writing of religious plays for which he also painted the scenery . Then followed three years in See also:Rome (1574-1577), where he is said to have been the first to discover the catacombs . On his return See also:journey he passed through See also:Vienna, where, together with the sculptor Hans Mont, he made the triumphal See also:arch for the entry of the See also:emperor See also:Rudolph . After many vicissitudes caused by See also:war, loss of See also:fortune and See also:plague, he settled at See also:Haarlem where, in See also:conjunction with See also:Goltzius and Cornelisz, he founded a successful See also:academy of See also:painting . His fame is, however, principally based upon a voluminous See also:biographical See also:work on the paintings of various epochs—a See also:book that has become for the See also:northern countries what See also:Vasari's Lives of the Painters became for See also:Italy . It was completed in 1603 and published in 1604, in which See also:year See also:Van See also:Mander removed to See also:Amsterdam, where he died in 16o6 . |
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