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Flemish painter, poet and art historian (1548–1606)
Also known as: Karel van Mander, Karel Van Mander, C. van Mander, C. Vandermandere, C. Ver Mandern, C. Vermanderen
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- Schilderboek (1965)
- Het schilder-boek (1943)
- Het Schilder-Boeck waerin voor eerst le leerlustighe Iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen (1969)
- Kniga o khudozhnikakh (1940)
- Le livre de peinture (1965)