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He is known for combining traditional Netherlandish painting techniques with influences of more contemporary Renaissance painting styles. As a skilled technician, his art shows sensitivity to color and a unique solidarity of figures. He was the father of Cornelius or Cornelis van Cleve who was also a painter and is believed to have suffered from a mental illness and was therefore referred to as 'Sotte Cleef' mad Cleef. The birthplace of Joos van Cleve is not precisely known. It is therefore likely that he came from the Lower Rhenish region or city named Klevefrom which his name is derived. It is assumed that he began his artistic training around in joos van cleve chicago wiki israel workshop of Jan Joest, whom he assisted in the panel paintings of the high altar for the Nikolaikirche in KalkarLower Rhine, Germany. He was co-deacon of the guild for several years aroundalong with presenting pupils between and He may also have made a trip to Italy around this time and to London England around His son Cornelis became a painter. Although the date of his death is unknown, Joos van Cleve drew up a will and testament on 10 Novemberand his second wife was listed as a widow in April In it was discovered that the monogram on the back of the triptych joos van cleve chicago wiki israel that of Joos van der Beke, an alias of Joos van Cleve. The Death of the Virgin shows the combined influence of several artists. It has the intense emotionality of Hugo van der Goesand iconographic ideas of Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin. Like Quentin Matsysa fellow artist active in Antwerp, Joos van Cleve appropriated themes and techniques of Leonardo da Vinci. This is apparent in the use of sfumato in the Virgin and Child. Multiple versions of a soft, sentimental Madonna and Child and the Holy Family were discovered, produced in his workshop. There he painted the king Philadelphia Museum of Artthe queen Eleanor of Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum and other members of the court. Some historians have interpreted this as evidence that the portraits were pendants painted to commemorate the meeting of the two kings in Calais and Boulogne on 21 and 29 October



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