Florentine Cinquecento and Quattrocento
Gustav Klimt (1891)
Gustav Klimt’s Florentine Cinquecento and Quattrocento stages a dialogue between <strong>heroic virtue</strong> and <strong>ideal beauty</strong>. A trophy-like Goliath head (standing for Michelangelo’s David) faces a reclining <strong>Venus with Cupid</strong>, all set within a gilded, marbleized architectural frame that fuses painting and ornament <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
