Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by KLIMT, Gustav, Fresco
This scene is on the ceiling in the state staircase on the Volksgarten side.
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.