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Klimt
________ is famous for his use of gold- leaf in painting.
Gold leaves
________: were applied onto a layer of gesso (plaster with an adhesive gum) on wood as a base.
Throne Baldachin
________, designed by Hans Knieper, woven under the directorship of Hans Knieper, Helsingør (Denmark), 1585- 86.
Adele
________ was the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Vienna where Klimt lived and worked.
Gold leaves
were applied onto a layer of gesso (plaster with an adhesive gum) on wood as a base
Has a thickness of 10
100 μm
Wool, silk, and gold-metal thread (diameter 0.2
1 mm)
Mamluk Enameled and Gilded Deep Blue Glass Bottle
Decorated with a band of scrolling gold motifs around a white inscription divided by three roundels containing turquoise lions
The Golden Church (Altar)
The ornate gold-leaf altar inside the Golden Church, San Pedro Apostol de Andahuaylillas
This 16th-century church dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the Andes" offers ornate gold-gilded decor.
The Throne Baldachin was commissioned in the early 1580s as
the centerpiece of a sequence of forty tapestries depicting life-size figures of the genealogy of the Danish kings.
The Throne Baldachin depicted
the coats of arms of Frederick II of Denmark (1559-1588) and his wife, Sofia, in a richly decorative ground that combines allegorical figures, heraldic emblems, and medallions with scenes from classical history.
The Lady in Gold was commissioned by
Adele's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Jewish banker and sugar producer.
The upper shoulder of the Mamluk Enameled and Gilded Deep Blue Glass Bottle has
alternating fleur-de-lys and roundels issuing gold scrolls, the mouth with a band of similar turquoise calligraphy.
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