page_title: Cornelis van Cleve
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelis van Cleve / Works
context_page_description: Cornelis van Cleve, Cornelis van Cleef or Cornelis van der Beke, nickname Sotte Cleve was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Antwerp who is known for his religious compositions and portraits. Starting his career in Antwerp in the workshop of his father Joos van Cleve, he later worked for a while in London. When he failed to achieve success in England, he became insane and stopped painting.
context_section_description: Cornelis van Cleve was only active during a fourteen-year period in Antwerp and London.  Nevertheless, he was able to leave an extensive body of work as can be deduced from the frequent mention of his works in 16th and 17th-century inventories.  Rubens owned two works by the artist. The English King Charles I also owned two works by 'Sotte Cleve', which are no longer in the Royal Collection including a 'Bacchus feast of children being some, one and twenty figures'. Max J. Friedländer identified a group of works originally attributed to an artist given the notname Pseudo-Lombard as works of Cornelis van Cleve. Of the works attributed to both Joos van Cleve and Cornelis van Cleve, the authorship of father or son remains often a matter of dispute.
  Cornelis van Cleve painted predominantly religious paintings and to a lesser extent mythological scenes and portraits. Walter Friedländer organised van Cleve's pictures in chronological order, based on the development in his style. He thus showed that the painter had distanced himself gradually from his father's style. Initially he was a representative of the tradition in the period dominated by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Frans Floris and Anthonis Mor, Flemish painters who had studied in Italy or had become influenced by Italian art. He made efforts to keep up with the new style by eagerly looking around for Italian models. This paintings show influences from Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Sarto.
caption: Virgin of the Annunciation
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