Oil on canvas, 180 × 180 cm, painted by Gustav Klimt between 1907 and
1908, during his “golden period”, when he laid real gold and silver leaf
over the paint, an idea he took from the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna he
had studied. A kneeling couple kiss on a flowering clifftop, both
wrapped in one golden cloak that joins them and cuts them off from the
background. It is the most reproduced image of Viennese Art Nouveau, and
it hangs in the Belvedere in Vienna.
