Part of the Tree of Life (Part 5)
Gustav Klimt (1910–1911)
In Part of the Tree of Life (Part 5), Gustav Klimt renders a cosmos of spiraling branches studded with <strong>Eyes of Horus</strong>, turquoise tesserae, and a solitary dark <strong>bird</strong>. The panel condenses themes of vigilance, renewal, and mortality into a decorative grammar that served as a full-scale working <strong>cartoon</strong> for the Stoclet dining-room mosaics—a key Secessionist <strong>Gesamtkunstwerk</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
