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 English as 'The Book of Painters' or 'The Book of (or on) Painting' and sometimes as 'The Book on Picturing'. consists of six parts and is considered one of the principal sources on the history of art and art theory in the 15th and 16th century Low Countries. The book was very well received and sold well. Karel van Mander died two years after its publication. A second posthumous edition, which included a brief, anonymous biography of van Mander was published in 1618. This second edition was translated by Hessel Miedema into English and published in 1994-1997 together with a facsimile of the original and five volumes of notes on the text.

==Summary== is divided into six parts that have separate title pages and are indexed. The parts are: The foundations of the noble and free art of painting () Lives of the illustrious ancient painters including Egyptians, Greek and Romans () Lives of the modern or contemporary illustrious Italian painters () Lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters () Commentary on the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Nasso () Depiction of figures ()