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This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (November 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This page is an illustrative list of Gustav Klimt's major paintings, and represents a chronological look at some of his main pictorial production. The list is ordered by year and ...
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.
The Athenebrunnen (or Fountain of Pallas Athena) is a fountain that bears the name of the Greek goddess Athena and is along Jean-Amery-Weg towards Karlsruhe in the western part of Stuttgart. [n 1] It is a creation of Karl Donndorf [Wikidata] (1870–1941), dating from 1911. This fountain, important both culturally and historically, has been ...
Gallery of works by Gustav Klimt at Zeno.org (in German) iKlimt.com; Web Museum Klimt page; Up Close With Klimt's Painting of 'Judith', Google Arts and Culture; Klimt Film at IMDb High resolution Klimt gallery; Klimt – Painter of Women, CH: Cosmopolis, archived from the original on 5 December 2012
The statue, of Parian marble, is 2.25 m high. [1] It depicts Athena standing, wearing a thin chiton covered by a heavier himation draped over her left shoulder. On her breast is an aegis with a gorgoneion. Her left arm reaches across the front of her body to hold the edge of the himation; the right arm is bent upward at the elbow to clasp a spear.
Out of sadness and regret, Athena created the palladium, a statue in the likeness of Pallas, and wrapped the aegis, which she had feared, about the breast of it, and set it up beside Zeus and honored it. [1] Later, Athena took on the title Pallas as tribute to her late friend. [citation needed]
This replaces an old identification of the type's original with the cult statue by Alcamenes in the Temple of Hephaestus on the Athenian agora. Plaster casts of the sculpture (probably taken from the original) have been found in excavations of a Roman copyist's workshop at Baiae , and these casts show that Kresilas's bronze was of the same ...
The exterior of the Austrian Parliament—especially the statue and fountain of Athena—is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Vienna. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) classifies the inner city of Vienna, including the Ringstraße and thus the Parliament Building as a World Heritage Site ...