ArtSmarts
Up the stairs leading to Klimt
The Vienna Museum of Art History has repeated its incredibly successful project, the rise to the paintings by Gustav Klimt. A temporary four tons podium, the Klimt-Bridge, allowed viewers to climb to as high as 12 meters to the arch scuncheons and the intercolumniations of the museum’s main staircase, where the artist placed allegorical images of the most significant epochs in the history of…