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29 Famous Paintings That Left Their Mark On Cinema, As Shared By Wolf Of X

Originally shared by Wolf of X on X, the comparisons below reveal just how closely some of Hollywood's most iconic scenes echo the compositions that inspired them.

Bored Panda · Aug 6

The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution

In 1806, the Parisian gastronome Grimod de la Reynière launched a new periodical, the Journal des Gourmands et des Belles in post-revolutionary France. From the first issue, it set out to provide readers with advice on food, fashion, and theatrical life, all in one publication. Almost entirely forgotten today, the…

The Conversation · Jul 15

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

An ambitious Jacques‑Louis David retrospective at the Louvre, a docuseries about Martin Scorsese, and Black Phone 2 rings in spooky cinema season. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews · Oct 13, 2025

Heroic, short, callous, crumpled, Christlike: how artists portrayed Napoleon before Ridley Scott

From a battlefield avenger to a nude colossus, the Corsican conqueror was a rich subject for artists across Europe. But did Turner, who painted him as a fallen emperor, finally capture the truth?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2023

Napoleon: the film's fashion tells a story of its own, from cropped hair to ribbon chokers

In his epic historical drama, Ridley Scott depicts Napoleon Bonaparte’s career not only through a military lens but a romantic one, suggesting that Napoleon’s global conquests were driven by a desire to conquer his wife Josephine’s heart.

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2023

Campaign trail: follow Napoleon’s progress across Europe

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic is released next week, but from birthplace to battlefields you can still follow in Bonaparte’s mighty footsteps

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2023

Napoleon review: Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby are perversely watchable in Ridley Scott’s thrilling epic

This is a two-and-a-half-hour spectacle that translates brutal history through Scott’s brawny, cannily modern style

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023

The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted

As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its grand reopening this week, critics, artists and curators pick their favourite works from 500 years of portraiture

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2023

Jacques-Louis David's The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Dead Sons is a gruesome and compelling painting

In this new series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting.

The Conversation · Aug 30, 2022

Versailles reopens room that saw birth of French democracy

The Palace of Versailles has reopened the freshly restored Jeu de Paume Room that witnessed the first steps towards French democracy in 1789. Used as a storeroom, a games room and a long since-abandoned museum about the Revolution, the building has finally been given the makeover it deserves to bring…

Radio France Internationale · Apr 2, 2022