Gold Leaves

Klimt

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.