We just learned about the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
Another famous work of art is the painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in 1907.
Klimt made many paintings through his life as an artist, and at one point decided to start using something called gold leaf in his paintings.
Gold leaf is gold that is hammered down very flat so that it is as thin as paper.
Klimt would use normal oil paint for the parts of his painting that had many colors, and then he would use shaped pieces of gold leaf to fill in the shiny gold parts.
He became very famous for doing this type of artwork, and people call his paintings using gold leaf his gold period.
(from: wikipedia - portrait of adele bloch-bauer i)
Kid Facts - Blast from the past: The Sun
