# Shakespeare's Globe Theatre [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KLIMT, Gustav]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The cycle of paintings in the staircase on the Volksgarten side represents the evolution of the theatre from antiquity to the golden age of the theatre in Elizabethan England. As spectators in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, we witness the scene in the Capulets' tomb in which a suicidal Romeo has collapsed beside Juliet, whom he believes to be dead. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Altar of Dionysos]() - [Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall \(detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall \(detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 1\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 2, detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 2\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 1\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 2, deatail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 2\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()