Hessel Miedema (21 January 1929,

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– 14 April 2019) was a leading

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and the world authority on

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...

Biography

He was born in

, but grew up in

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, where he studied art history at the

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. After his studies in 1957 he became curator of the

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. In 1963 he returned to Amsterdam to write his dissertation on Karel van Mander. Though best known for his (Dutch and English) work on Van Mander, he is also an artist and

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expert who has written poems and stories in his native Frisian. He wrote the poem ''De greate wrakseling'' with illustrations by his own hand in West Frisian in 1964 about a sculptor who fights for innovation against the strict structures of musea. The sculptor realizes at a certain point that he has ''forgotten to knock his art to pieces''.Poem ''De greate wrakseling'', 1964,

Select bibliography

*''The lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, from the first edition of the

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into Engl ...

(1603-1604), preceded by the lineage, circumstances and place of birth, life and ..., from the second edition of the Schilder-boeck (1616-1618)'', 1994-1997 (Massive publication in 6 volumes; Volume 1 is the facsimile version of the original; volumes 2-5 are commentary volumes, and volume 6 is the cross-reference) *''Karel van Manders leven der moderne, oft dees-tijtsche doorluchtighe Italiaensche schilders en hun bron : een vergelijking tussen van Mander en Vasari'', 1984 *''Kunst, kunstenaar en kunstwerk bij Karel Van Mander : een analyse van zijn levensbeschrijvingen'', 1981 * *''De Archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798'', 1980, * ''Denkbeeldig schoon:

Lambert ten Kate Lambert ten Kate (23 January 1674 – 14 December 1731) was a Dutch linguist. Specialised in comparative historical linguistics, he was also a well-known art collector. Early life Ten Kate was born in Amsterdam to Mennonite parents. He studied a ...

, opvattingen over beeldende kunst'', 2007 * ''Op 'e literaire toer'' (in Friesian), 1973, Bolswert Koperative Utjowerij (Republished in 2010, )

References

External links

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1929 births 2019 deaths Dutch art critics Dutch art historians People from Sneek University of Amsterdam alumni {{Europe-art-historian-stub