Karel Van Mander and His Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting: First English Translation, with Introduction and Commentary (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual Histor)

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgments
‎Illustrations
‎About the Author
‎Introduction “‘Pictura’s Cornerstone’: Karel van Mander and His Foundation of the Noble, free Art of Painting”
	‎1. The Intertextual Network of Dedicatory Epistles and Prefaces
	‎2. The Sources, Title-Page, and Scope of the Grondt
	‎3. Laying a Comparative Foundation for the Schilder-Boeck
	‎4. Key Terms and Critical Categories
		‎a. Schilder
		‎b. Manier
		‎c. Uyt zijn selven doen
		‎d. Welstandt
		‎e. Leven and Gheest
		‎f. Wel schilderen
	‎5. Ekphrastic Usage in the Schilder-Boeck
	‎6. Landtschap and byvoechsel: Van Mander on Landcape and History, Simulation and Dissimulation
	‎7. Précis: The Poem’s Fourteen Chapters
‎Den Grondt: The Foundation of the Noble, free Art of Painting: In which her form, origin, and nature are placed before the eyes of inquisitive Youth, in discrete Parts, in Rhymed Verse.
	‎“Prefaces and Selected Preliminary Poems”
	‎Chapter 1: “Exhortation, or Admonition to up and coming young Painters”
	‎Chapter 2: “On Drawing, or the Art of Delineating”
	‎Chapter 3: “Analogy, Proportion, or measurement of the Parts of a Human Body”
	‎Chapter 4: “On the Attitude, Decorum, and Decorous Motion of a Human Figure”
	‎Chapter 5: “On the Ordonnance and Invention of Histories”
	‎Chapter 6: “Portrayal of the Affects, Passions, Desires, and Sorrows of Persons”
	‎Chapter 7: “On Reflection, Reverberation, re-reflected luster, or re-reflection”
	‎Chapter 8: “On Landscape”
	‎Chapter 9: “On Cattle, Animals, and Birds”
	‎Chapter 10: “On Fabrics or Drapery”
	‎Chapter 11: “On Sorting and Combining Colors”
	‎Chapter 12: “On Painting Well, or Coloring”
	‎Chapter 13: “On the Origin, Nature, Force, and Effect of Colors”
	‎Chapter 14: “On the Interpretation of Colors, and What They Can Signify”
	‎Register of Commonplaces: “Table of the Foundation of the Art of Painting”
‎Commentary