John Oliver Hand "Joos Van Cleve: The Complete Paintings" Yale University Press 2004

John Oliver Hand "Joos Van Cleve: The Complete Paintings" Yale University Press 2004.

Hardback, dust jacket, colour and black-and-white illustrations, 230 pages.

Condition as shown in the photographs.

Dimensions 29.5x25.5 cm.

John Oliver Hand was curator of Northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. between the years 1973–2019.

Joos van Cleve (active 1505/1508 - 1540/1541) was an influential Netherlandish artist in the first decades of the sixteenth century. A consummate technician and a sensitive colourist, he created some of the best-loved images in Northern Renaissance painting. In this book - the first major study of Joos in almost eighty years - the leading authority on the artist gives a comprehensive and up-to-date account of his life and work. John Hand discusses the events of Joos van Cleve's career, the obscurity of his works after his death and their rediscovery in the nineteenth century. He examines specific paintings within Joos's oeuvre and addresses a wide range of questions of style, chronology, iconography, influences and the artist's many commissions. The second part of the book catalogues the complete paintings of Joos van Cleve, including works by Joos himself, workshop versions and copies of his paintings, as well as works of doubtful attribution.