▲ Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), church in cassone, 1913, private collection.

This view was made from the heights of malcesine, in the villa gruber on the péninscule val di sogno. Klimt Used a telescope to observe houses across the street.
Malcesine is a city in the province of Verona, veneto.
It's most important monument is the castello scaliger, which has the century fortress and an ancient medieval tower. This is where goethe, staying here in 1786, was arrested and interviewed by a local judge accused him of spy while making sketches of the castle. Behind Malcesine rises the monte baldo at 2218 meters high.
Little prone to travel, Klimt Made several trips to Italy, spring and Autumn 1902, but also in 1913. It was during this first stay that he discovered the roman mosaics of Ravenna, which will inspire him for His famous golden cycle.

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