Excerpts of the Lives of Italian Artists from the Book of Painters

Abstract

This excerpt from Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck, originally published in Dutch in 1604, is a primary-source text on late sixteenth-century Italian artists. Van Mander provides the biographies of a range of Italian painters, including Federico Zuccaro, Federico Barocci, Jacopo Palma, Giuseppe of Arpino, and other contemporary Italian artists. The text includes two sections devoted to artists based in Rome, and another section focusing on female artists in Italy.