Mystery of the Lost Paintings ep. 6 - Mystery of the Lost Klimt
A team of art experts attempt to recreate Medicine, a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, which was destroyed in 1945 by the retreating German army. Mystery of the Lost Paintings ep. 6 - Mystery of the Lost Klimt Medicine was the second of University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, presented in March 1901 at the tenth Secession Exhibition. It featured a column of nude figures on the right hand side of the painting, representing the river of life. Beside it was a young nude female who floated in space, with a newborn infant at her feet, representing life. A skeleton represented death in the river of life. The only link between the floating woman and the river of bodies is two arms, the woman's and a man's as seen from behind. Figure of Hygeia, the mythological daughter of the god of medicine is shown at the bottom of the painting. Hygieia stood with the Aesculapian snake around her arm and the cup of Lethe in her hand, turning her back to mankind. Klimt conveyed an ambi