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00:00 Intro
00:28 Hercules
02:22 Aladdin
02:51 Mulan
03:36 Beauty and the Beast
05:22 The Little Mermaid
06:02 Pinocchio
06:37 Lilo & Stitch
07:09 Frozen
09:08 Rapunzel
09:40 Snow White
Walt Disney artists have always created masterpieces that made us dream. Like all girls and with a brother younger than me, I can really say that I have seen and reviewed almost all Disney cartoons a thousand times. Growing up, I also began to notice the references to art history hidden within. And there are so many.
HERCULES
1. As an adult Hercules goes in search of his real parents and receives the revelation on his origins directly from one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the statue of Zeus, created by Phidias around 435 BC. for the temple in Olympia and then destroyed.
2. In the scene where he and Amphitryon go to the market, Hercules accidentally destroys a square. And from above, his form cannot go unnoticed. It is a reproduction of St. Peter's Square in Rome, with a few thousand years of difference.
3. In the scene where Hercules and Megara flirt, he throws a stone on the water of a fountain hitting a Venus identical to the one found today in the Louvre and because of him both arms fall.
4. The Santorini Spring fresco, one of the very few frescoes from the Mycenaean age that has survived intact to us. It is located on the wall of the house of Hercules' adoptive parents.
5. The Caryatids who are also transformed into muses and who tell us the whole story.
ALADDIN
6. Aladdin and Jasmine are on the flying carpet in the scene where the world is theirs. If it were not that there were not so many flying carpets in Egypt then they distract the sculptor who is working on the Sphinx who combines a disaster and accidentally takes his nose off.
MULAN
7. Despite being set in China, in the scene where the girl's ancestors are awakened, two of them interpret the famous American Gothic by Grant Wood from 1930.
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
8. American Gothic which also appears here and also in this case is reinterpreted by two of the characters Mis Brick and Tockins during the song “Again human”.
9. Girl with a Turban or Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring hangs on one of the walls of the Beast's castle.
10. And next to Vermeer's painting we could also recognize another quite famous one: The Portrait of a Man by Rembrandt, preserved today at the MET in New York.
11. During the song “Stay with us” the silverware and plates are transformed into the Eiffel Tower.
12. During the song where Belle wanders in the village library she makes it clear that she is a different girl from the others. Going out on the sign we find Magritte: "The betrayal of images".
THE LITTLE MERMAID
13. during her scene in the cave of wonders she not only plays the part of the collector par excellence because he wonders who in the world has more wealth than her, but she also shows a truly recognizable one. This is the Magdalene with flame by Georges de la Tour
PINOCCHIO
14. In the scene where children in Toyland are allowed to do any mischief, you enter what clearly looks like a museum and Candlewick lights his cigar in front of the Mona Lisa, which poor thing has just been vandalized.
LILO & STITCH
15. In the credits of Lilo & Stich, among the various photos of the new family, there is also an image inspired by the work Freedom from the need of 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell.
FROZEN
16. The first painting in the gallery recalls Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dance of the Peasants of 1567.
17. In the following work we find Auguste Serrure's The Picnic but in a version seen from above.
18. Very similar to that of Gerard Ter Borchdal entitled The dancing couple.
19. John Singer Sargent's casino of 1882
20. The Fragonard swing
RAPUNZEL
21. Forced to remain segregated in her tower, among the many pastimes the girl also loves painting the walls of the house. And she creates some works clearly inspired by Van Gogh, such as the one that remembers The Starry Night from afar.
SNOW-WHITE
22. The castle really exists in reality and is located in Spain. This is the Alcázar of Segovia.
23. The stepmother is the same as the German statue of Uta in the Naumberg church.
1 авг 2024
