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painter from the Northern Netherlands (1660-1719)
Also known as: A. Houbrake, A. Houbraken, A. van Houbraken, Arnold Honbraken, Arnold Houbrachen, Arnold Houbracken
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Karel van Mander the Elder1548–1606ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Schilder-boeck is the foundational Dutch-language collection of painters' lives, the direct model for Houbraken's biographical survey. (AI reason)
Giorgio Vasari1511–1574ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Lives of the Artists set the pattern of anecdotal artist biography that Houbraken applies to Netherlandish painters. (AI reason)
Jacob Campo Weyerman1677–1747ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis lives of Netherlandish painters continue Houbraken's genre with a similarly anecdotal, gossipy tone. (AI reason)
Jan van Gool1685–1763ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Nieuwe Schouburg was written explicitly as a sequel to Houbraken's theatre of painters. (AI reason)
Samuel van Hoogstraten1627–1678ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Dutch treatise on the art of painting mixes theory with artist lore from the same Golden Age milieu. (AI reason)
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Cornelis de Bie1627–1715ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Het Gulden Cabinet offers verse-laden biographies of Low Countries painters in a comparable celebratory style. (AI reason)
- Joachim von Sandrart1606–1688ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Teutsche Academie combines artist biographies and art theory covering many Northern painters. (AI reason)
- Gérard de Lairesse1640–1711ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Groot Schilderboek is a contemporary Dutch painting manual reflecting the same classicist art-theoretical outlook. (AI reason)
- Giovanni Pietro Bellori1613–1696ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Vite of seventeenth-century artists is a parallel Baroque-era biographical compendium with classicist judgments. (AI reason)
Filippo Baldinucci1625–1697ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Notizie de' professori del disegno compiles extensive artist biographies in the same encyclopedic spirit. (AI reason)
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- De groote schouburgh der nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718)
- Lives of Rembrandt
- Stichtelyke zinnebeelden (1767)
- Toneel van Sinnebeelden
- Stichtelyke zinnebeelden gepast op deugden en ondeugden in LVII tafereeellen vertoont (1723)