Nuda Veritas 1899 by Gustav Klimt 1862 – 1918 Austrian symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession movement Austria ( The text from the German poet Schiller 'If you cannot please everyone with your actions and your art, you should satisfy a few. To please many is dangerous.' The somewhat aggressive note of this inscription, combined with the mirror that the female figure holds out to the viewer, inviting us to examine ourselves, can perhaps be related to the rebelliousness of the Secession movement.)

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