Karel van Mander
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Karel van Mander or Carel van Mander I was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is
Portrait of van Mander from his book
Portrait of a man, Kunsthistorisches Museum
The adoration of the golden calf, Frans Hals Museum
Garden of Love, 1602, Hermitage Museum
Frans Hals
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Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens like
Karel van Mander
…artist to tell a specific story. The last chapter of the Schilder-Boeck describes the meaning of animals and other figures. Van Mander was the master of Frans Hals. Frans Hals appears not to have shared van Mander's view that history painting was the highest in the hierarchy of genres, since Frans Hals produced…
Copy of a Self-portrait by Hals
Frans Hals Singing Boy with Flute Google Art Project
Statue of Frans Hals in Florapark, Haarlem
Frans Hals, later finished by Pieter Codde. De Magere Compagnie. 1637. Oil on canvas, 209 x 429 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam