Scholars know Karel van Mander, "the Dutch Vasari," first for his writings and second for his accomplishments as a painter. After training with a poet and painter, he spent the years from 1573 to 1577 in Italy. There both Giorgio Vasari's book, *Lives of the Italian Artists,* and his Mannerist paintings greatly impressed him. When van Mander returned from Rome to Holland, he brought Bartholomäus S
