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| Johann Liss Cupid ca. 1630 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Johann Liss Death of Cleopatra ca. 1622-24 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Johann Liss Ecstasy of St Paul 1629 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann Liss Finding of Moses before 1631 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
"In 1630 probably few Venetians realized that they had had two young artists in their midst who had aroused painting from its 'eclectic slumber'. They were neither Venetian by birth, nor were they ever entrusted with important commissions in the city in which they had settled. Giovanni Lys [Johann Liss] came to Italy in about 1620, and by 1621 was in Venice. In the same year Domenico Fetti had his first taste of Venice. Both artists excelled in cabinet pictures and both died young. They each developed a manner in which the spirited brush-stroke was of over-riding importance, and by this means they re-invigorated Venetian colour, and became the exponents of the most advanced tendencies. They are the real heirs to the Venetian colouristic tradition; with their rich, warm, and light palette and their laden brush-work they are as far removed from the tenebroso of Caravaggio as from the classicism of the Bolognese."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Johann Liss Flight into Egypt before 1631 oil on canvas National Museum, Kielce (Poland) |
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| Johann Liss Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Johann Liss Hercules at the Crossroads ca. 1625 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie-Alte-Meister-Dresden |
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| Johann Liss Sacrifice of Isaac ca. 1624-29 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Johann Liss Fall of Phaeton ca. 1624 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Johann Liss Venus and Adonis ca. 1620-31 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe (Germany) |
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| Johann Liss Judith and Holofernes (prime version) ca. 1622 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Johann Liss Judith and Holofernes (workshop copy) ca. 1624-26 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Johann Liss Judith and Holofernes (workshop copy) ca. 1628 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Johann Liss Body of Abel mourned by Adam and Eve before 1631 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |