# Gold, Ornament, and the Body

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Klimt’s Golden Period combines flattened pattern, precious material, mosaiclike surfaces, and carefully rendered faces and bodies. Ornament can envelop the sitter, making identity hover between physical presence and decorative field.

His images of women are celebrated for sensuality and agency but also invite scrutiny of the gendered gaze and the social world of elite portrait patronage.

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