Belvedere, Vienna

The Belvedere is a Baroque palace complex in Vienna housing the world’s largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt. Its most celebrated treasure is The Kiss, the golden icon of the Vienna Secession.

  • The Kiss

    ByDominik Szobak

    Every year, millions of people stand before a single painting and feel something close to breathless — yet most of them don’t realise that the glittering gold surface they’re admiring isn’t paint at all, but actual gold leaf, applied by an artist who grew up watching his father engrave the same metal for a living….