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Klimt's The Kiss

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Klimt's The Kiss

A gold-leafed Art Nouveau painting of an embracing couple/Art & Sculpture

Gustav Klimt painted The Kiss between 1907 and 1908 during his 'Golden Phase.' The painting uses oil paint combined with gold leaf on canvas. It depicts a couple kneeling on a flower-covered cliff edge, wrapped in elaborately patterned robes. The work is housed at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.

Measurements

Height1.8 m
460 millionthsAkashi Kaikyo spans
3.6 tenthsSUV lengths
Width1.8 m
8.8 thousandthsSuez Canal widths
3.6 tenthsBeaver dam lengths
3.6 tenthsBalance beam lengths
Canvas depth3 hundredths m
1.24Quarters
286 millionthsSoccer pitches
5.5 millionHemoglobin molecules
Surface area3.24 m^2
1.2 tenthsStudio apartments
2.5 tenthsParking spaces
Gold leaf thickness120 billionths m
243 quadrillionthsLake Michigan lengths
57.1 billionthsSofas

About 0.12 micrometres

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