The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Cornelis
Van Cleve

1520 — 1567 · Renaissance

The Tragic Brilliance of Sotte Cleve In the vibrant heart of the Flemish Renaissance, few stories are as poignant or as enigmatic as that of Cornelis van Cleve. Known to history by the evocative nickname Sotte Cleve—or "Mad Cleve"—this Antwerp-born painter possessed a talent that …

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Cornelis Van Cleve
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Cornelis Van Cleve's own colours

Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers