Lion Attacking a Horse Statue (325–300 BCE)
This is Leone che azzanna il cavallo or Lion Attacking a Horse, now in the Exedra of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museums.
Europe
A collection of artifacts from across Europe, spanning its diverse histories and cultures. This category reflects the continent’s role as a cradle of art, innovation, and conflict through the ages.
The Alunda Elk (4000–1700 BCE)
The Alunda Elk combines the shape of an axe with a remarkably lifelike animal sculpture. Carved during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age.
Jurisprudence (1903-1907 CE)
A courtroom without mercy. That is the first impression Jurisprudence still makes, even though the original canvas has been gone for eighty years and survives only in photographs.
Medicine (1898-1907 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Medicine is one of the great missing paintings of European modernism: a vast, unsettling allegory of birth, suffering, eros, and death, painted for the ceremonial hall of the University of Vienna.
Philosophy (1907 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Philosophy is a painting that asks the viewer to look into a universe that does not answer back. On a vast canvas, naked figures drift through a green-blue mist.
Adam and Eve (1918 CE)
Adam and Eve is an unfinished oil painting that is both intimate and monumental. In a tall, narrow canvas, a luminous, full-bodied Eve stands facing the viewer
Portrait of a Lady (1916–1917 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, painted in 1916–1917, shows a young woman turning to glance over her shoulder with an expression that feels both intimate and slightly distant.
Posthumous Portrait of Ria Munk III (1917 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Posthumous Portrait of Ria Munk III is a painting that looks, at first glance, like a celebration. A young woman turns toward us with flushed cheeks and a quiet smile.
Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (1914 CE)
A life history he could not have imagined. The portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl is one of Gustav Klimt's last works left incomplete when he died in 1918.