Karel van Mander Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Courtly Scene in a Palace Garden, ca.1600
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Female Nude, 1590
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Karel van Mander at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Karel van Mander at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Continence of Scipio, 1600
Clavichord lid (design by Karel van Mander)
Karel van Mander at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
The Flood, ca.1583
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market:
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Karel van Mander in the Art Renewal Center
Karel van Mander at CGFA
Karel van Mander in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Delft Artists and Patrons
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Karel van Mander 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Art Historians
Biographical entry with emphasis on the subject's contribution to the art historical research
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel Van Mander's Schilder-Boeck
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