# Altar of Dionysos [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KLIMT, Gustav]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The expanded segmental arch was filled by Gustav Klimt with a comparatively condensed composition centring on a temple staircase, which is seen in steep perspective from below. As is conveyed to us by its topmost coping, which is only just visible, the temple is imagined as a triptych-like structure along the lines of the Pergamon Altar. In the middle, there is the archaic head of the bearded god in gilt bronze; beside it, a small, grey figurine of a kouros presumably carved from stone. Flowers and ivy tendrils cascade down on either side of them. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [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 \(part 2\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()