Karel van Mander I

Karel van Mander I (1548-1606) Karel van Mander was born in 1548 in Meulebeke, in Flanders. After finishing Latin school he became an apprentice artist. Van Mander spent much of the subsequent period in Rome and later worked at the imperial court in Prague. In 1583, he moved back to Haarlem. There he turned his studio into an academy where, as was common at Italian studio...