As visitors ascend the stairs of Vienna’s Upper Belvedere Palace, a collection of Gustav Klimt’s most famous ... sensual works embellished in gold leaf. One section of the exhibit is dedicated ...

The portrait of the unnamed woman was still on an easel in Klimt's studio when the painter ... Symbolist painter is best-known for his work on gold-leaf-encrusted canvases such as The Kiss ...

Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim ... of Maria's beloved Aunt Adele: Gustave Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer ...

You might register the beauty of its decorative design — the mosaic of lollipop colors, the surrounding interstellar splatter of gold ... death. Klimt’s inclusion of a pregnant woman in ...

It was commissioned by a family of Jewish industrialists in 1917, a year before Klimt's death. However, there are many unanswered questions about the painting and debates about who the woman in ...

At least 25 preliminary studies were made. Klimt probably began the painting in May 1917. The painter chose a three-quarter portrait for his depiction and shows the young woman in a strictly frontal ...

The Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) is a portrait of an unnamed woman and was painted in ... in which his paintings often included gold leaf. Klimt celebrated the female body in his work ...