This book with Foreword written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Joos Van Cleve.
Joos Van Cleve (1485 – 1541) is famous for connecting conventional Netherlands’ art methods with style of more fashionable Renaissance painting techniques.
A prominent associate and member of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp, Joos Van Cleve is acknowledged typically for his religious painting and royalty portraiture. Since he was a proficient master of art technique his work exposes understanding to colors and an exclusive compactness of composition. Van Cleve was one of the foremost to initiate wide landscape scenes in the surroundings of his works, which would become an accepted style of 16-th century northern Renaissance art.