Philip Angel
Curriculum vitae
ca.1618 | born in Leiden |
1637 | became member of the St. Luke guild |
1638 | gained the title of master painter |
1645 | left for Batavia |
1649 | entered the VOC service to Ceylon |
1665 | back in Batavia |
Publications
In addition to his Lof der schilder-konst (Leyden 1642, Amsterdam 1972), Angel wrote a manuscript on Indian religion, Deex Autaers, in 1658:
2007 Deex Autaer von Philip Angel: eine niederländische Handschrift aus dem 17. Jahrhundert über die zehn Avatāras des Viṣṇu, hrsg., kommentiert und mit einer deutschen Übersetzung versehen von Siegfried Kratzsch, Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle (Neue Hallesche Berichte 7), 291 p.
2012 Philip Angel’s Deex-Autaers: Vaiṣṇava mythology from manuscript to book market in the context of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1600-1672, by Carolien Stolte, New Delhi: Manohar, 335 p. (Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825, vol. 5). – Dutch original and annotated translation into English.