Movie Scenes Inspired by Famous Paintings (12 Photos)

Cinematography and visual arts are very closely intertwined. After all, paintings by famous artists are an endless source of inspiration. both for directors and for screenwriters and cameramen. We offer look at what pictures could be embodied in cinema.

Scene from the movie "Napoleon" (2023)





Inspired by Jean-Leon Gerome's Bonaparte in front of the Sphinx (1868).

The coronation scene from the movie "Napoleon"



Napoleon's appearance is inspired by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Portrait of Napoleon on the Imperial Throne (1806).

Poster for the movie "Napoleon"





Inspired by Paul Delaroche's "After the Abdication at the Palace of Fontainebleau" (1845).

Scene from Marie Antoinette (2006)



Inspired by Jacques Louis David's Bonaparte at the Pass Saint Bernard (1801).

Scene from the film Metropolis (1927)



Inspired by Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel (1563).

Scene from A Clockwork Orange (1971)



Inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Prisoners Walk (1890).

Scene from the film "About Schmidt" (2003)



Inspired by Jacques Louis David's The Death of Marat (1793).

Scene from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)



Inspired by Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930).

Scene from The Revenant (2015)



Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's Abbey in the Oak Forest (1810).

Scene from The Mirror (1975)



Inspired by Pieter Brueghel the Elder's "Hunters in the Snow" (1565).

Scene from the film "Dreams" (1990)



Inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows (1890).

Scene from "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (2019)



Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818).