{"id":382979,"date":"2021-12-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:00:00","slug":"centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"#Centuries-old art that inspired Disney arrives at the Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40c5e065ade\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40c5e065ade\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/#Tiny_rooms_big_dreams\" >Tiny rooms, big dreams<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/#Flower_power\" >Flower power<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/#Let_there_be_light\" >Let there be light<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/centuries-old-art-that-inspired-disney-arrives-at-the-met\/#Mi_castle_su_castle\" >Mi castle, su castle<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Centuries-old art that inspired Disney arrives at the Met<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Walt Disney created rich, vibrant fantasies with his animation, but his inspirations were firmly rooted in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>A<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2021\/inspiring-walt-disney\"> just-opened exhibit<\/a> at the Met, \u201cInspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,\u201d showcases how historical European design influenced both the animator and those that worked for him. <\/p>\n<p>The exhibition goes back to the post-World War I era, when a 16-year-old Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>led to France to work for the Red Cross. He fell in love with the buildings and the art. A subsequent trip through Europe in 1935, when he was in his 30s, provided further inspiration. He filmed the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles during those travels; decades later, its design would be used as a clear reference by Disney artists for the backdrop for the famed ballroom scene in 1991\u2019s \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic52_DSC9567.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Just a week old, the exhibit has already drawn excited crowds and lines outside of its galleries.\" class=\"wp-image-20529858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic52_DSC9567.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic52_DSC9567.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic52_DSC9567.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic52_DSC9567.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Just a week old, the exhibit has already drawn excited crowds and lines outside of its galleries.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe sucked it all up like a sponge,\u201d said 36-year-old Wolf Burchard, a Met associate who curated the new display, which is on until March 6 and already drawing lines outside the galleries. <\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s travels also opened his eyes to gothic revival architecture, which made its way into 1950\u2019s \u201cCinderella,\u201d and of medieval art, which inspired the look of 1959\u2019s \u201cSleeping Beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some inspirations \u2014 such as modeling \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d off of medieval tapestries \u2014 are direct and specific, Disney drew on others, such as rococo references for the Lumiere character in \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe end product often doesn\u2019t look like the original source of inspiration \u2014 and I think that\u2019s really important,\u201d said Burchard. \u201cBecause that shows that Disney animators are not just unimaginatively copying their forebears, but they\u2019re actually creating something new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, the backstories of four items and how they influenced Walt Disney and Co. <\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tiny_rooms_big_dreams\"><\/span><strong>Tiny rooms, big dreams<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/11_Thorne-Miniature-Room_Art-Institute-Chicago.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Though small in size, this miniature French interior, and other miniscule models like it, helped Disney form the larger-scale idea for Disneyland.\" class=\"wp-image-20531353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/11_Thorne-Miniature-Room_Art-Institute-Chicago.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/11_Thorne-Miniature-Room_Art-Institute-Chicago.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/11_Thorne-Miniature-Room_Art-Institute-Chicago.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/11_Thorne-Miniature-Room_Art-Institute-Chicago.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Though small in size, this miniature French interior, and other miniscule models like it, helped Disney form the larger-scale idea for Disneyland.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Art Institute of Chicago \/ Art Resource, NY<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Disneyland in California \u2014 the fantasy park that opened in 1955 across 160 acres of former orange groves \u2014 finds its roots in something much smaller. The late American artist Narcissa Niblack Thorne\u2019s 1930s miniature period rooms \u2014 dozens of small-scale reproductions of stately European, American and Asian interiors \u2014 caught the eye of Walt Disney in 1939 while on display in San Francisco. \u201cThese rooms were created for Americans who couldn\u2019t travel [abroad] \u2026 and because they\u2019re so extremely accurate, they really help in the imaginative leap of traveling,\u201d said Burchard. At the Met, visitors can see Thorne\u2019s roughly 18 by 24 by 23-inch miniature French boudoir from the Louis XV period, which shows a room crowned with a chandelier that\u2019s surrounded by walls with ornate moldings. Such detailed re-creations compelled Disney to initially conceive of Disneyland as a model town, with particular attention to imaginative play. \u201cThey are about this childlike fantasy,\u201d said Burchard of Thorne\u2019s rooms. \u201cThis idea of escapism, of letting your imagination run free \u2014 children looking at it and letting their minds travel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic41_DSC9540.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The miniature room is, in fact, small -- and an attraction that visitors have photographed.\" class=\"wp-image-20529855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic41_DSC9540.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic41_DSC9540.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic41_DSC9540.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic41_DSC9540.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The miniature room is, in fact, small \u2014 and an attraction that visitors have photographed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Flower_power\"><\/span><strong>Flower power<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/12_Sleeping-Beauty-by-Eyvind-Earle_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Using medieval tapestries as an influence, Eyvind Earle created the prototype for &quot;Sleeping Beauty&quot; using a similar technique for keeping the lush foreground and background in crisp focus.\" class=\"wp-image-20529847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/12_Sleeping-Beauty-by-Eyvind-Earle_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/12_Sleeping-Beauty-by-Eyvind-Earle_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/12_Sleeping-Beauty-by-Eyvind-Earle_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/12_Sleeping-Beauty-by-Eyvind-Earle_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Using medieval tapestries as an influence, Eyvind Earle created the prototype for \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d using a similar technique for keeping the lush foreground and background in crisp focus.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Animation Research Library, \u00a9 Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The visual inspiration for \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d was the floral \u201cUnicorn Tapestries,\u201d designed in Paris and woven in the southern Netherlands in the 1500s. The Met acquired the tapestries in 1937 and put them on display at the Cloisters uptown. Disney employee John Hench took in the tapestries during a 1950s trip to NYC. \u201c[He] returned to Los Angeles suggesting to Disney that the \u2018Unicorn Tapestries\u2019 really should be a template for the aesthetics and for the storytelling of \u2018Sleeping Beauty,\u2019 \u201d said Burchard. \u201cDisney then employed the art director Eyvind Earle to create exactly that stage set, and it\u2019s considered one of the most artistically sophisticated of all films.\u201d At the new exhibit, visitors can see a vibrant gouache work of Earle\u2019s \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d concept art, which shows a thatched cottage surrounded by trees and plants \u2014 all of which are in saturated tones and crisp focus. The idea is \u201cstepping into a tapestry where the foreground and the background are reproduced in the same level of detail,\u201d Burchard said. According to the exhibit\u2019s catalogue, Earle once said, \u201cI rearranged the bushes and trees in geometrical patterns. I made a medieval tapestry out of the surface wherever possible. All my foregrounds were tapestry designs of decorative weeds and flowers.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-Making-Music.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"This &quot;Shepherd and Shepherdess Making Music&quot; tapestry hangs alongside concept art for &quot;Sleeping Beauty&quot; for similar design influences.\" class=\"wp-image-20529859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-Making-Music.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-Making-Music.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-Making-Music.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>This \u201cShepherd and Shepherdess Making Music\u201d tapestry hangs alongside concept art for \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d for similar design influences.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of The Met<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the \u201cUnicorn Tapestries\u201d far uptown, the new exhibition features the 16th-century \u201cShepherd and Shepherdess Making Music\u201d tapestry next to the Earle art to illustrate the influence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Let_there_be_light\"><\/span><strong>Let there be light<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"837\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=837\" alt=\"Though the constraints of hand-drawn animation ultimately prevented Lumiere from having a more ornate body, Rococo influences led designers to give him other ornamented designs in order to bring him to life.\" class=\"wp-image-20529839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1674 1674w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1256 1255w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=837 837w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=419 418w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/8_Beauty-and-the-Beast_Lumiere_Disney.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\"\/><figcaption>Though the constraints of hand-drawn animation ultimately prevented Lumiere from having a more ornate body, rococo influences led designers to give him other ornamented designs in order to bring him to life.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Animation Research Library, \u00a9 Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Candlesticks from France\u2019s 18th-century rococo period \u2014 a time known for its highly ornamental designs \u2014 served as inspiration for Disney animators to develop the just-as-flamboyant Lumiere character in \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d In the exhibit, a 1991 work of concept art for Lumiere is paired with a gilt bronze candlestick made between 1735 and 1750 by the designer Juste-Aur\u00e8le Meissonnier. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/7_candelstick_Met-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The inspiration for Lumiere came from Rococo candlesticks. This one, by Meissonnier, is a good example for showing its abstract shapes bringing movement to an otherwise inanimate object.\" class=\"wp-image-20529835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/7_candelstick_Met-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/7_candelstick_Met-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/7_candelstick_Met-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/7_candelstick_Met-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The inspiration for Lumiere came from rococo candlesticks. This one, by Meissonnier, is a good example for showing its abstract shapes bringing movement to an otherwise inanimate object.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of The Met<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The inspiration for Lumiere isn\u2019t specific to this one candlestick, but rather the period aesthetic overall; both pieces aim to show visitors how somewhat theatrical design can breathe life into inanimate objects. The concept art from the film shows \u201cthe melting wax that forms [Lumiere\u2019s] shifty-looking face, and then you have the shiny metal candlestick itself, and you can see how the arms move to inform how the animation works,\u201d said Burchard. Meanwhile, the 18th-century candlestick, perched on a rotating platform, shows off a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of glittery curves that give a sense of movement to an otherwise ordinary object. \u201cThis is a different type of animation,\u201d said Burchard. \u201cThis is how, pre-cinema and pre-hand drawn animation, the rococo designers were trying to animate the object through \u2026 undulations and carrying the eye across a complicated abstract surface. It\u2019s the most incredible work.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mi_castle_su_castle\"><\/span><strong>Mi castle, su castle<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic46_DSC9553.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"These four Rococo vases, though not a direct influence, have elements that resemble Disney castles.\" class=\"wp-image-20529856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic46_DSC9553.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic46_DSC9553.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic46_DSC9553.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SG_pic46_DSC9553.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>These four rococo vases, though not a direct influence, have elements that resemble Disney castles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefano Giovannini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Inside the exhibit\u2019s last gallery, viewers get a look at four towering French porcelain vases c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed with pink and green domes. Standing next to each other, the vases bear a similar outline and color scheme to Disney castles. Made around 1762 by S\u00e8vres Manufactory, Burchard said these rococo pieces rank among the most ambitious porcelain vases ever created due to the level of detail, like windows carved into the domes. Two vases are on loan from the\u00a0Huntington\u00a0Library\u00a0in California, which Disney visited, but it isn\u2019t clear if he saw them. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Disney-Castle-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Similar to the ornate wedding cake look of the porcelain vases, Disney castles have similar shapes and colors, such as this one near Paris, France.\" class=\"wp-image-20529848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Disney-Castle-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Disney-Castle-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Disney-Castle-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Disney-Castle-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Similar to the ornate wedding cake look of the porcelain vases, Disney castles have similar shapes and colors, such as this one near Paris, France.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe point that this makes is not necessarily to say that Disney saw those vases and was inspired by them when he was overseeing the making of Disneyland,\u201d said Burchard. But it\u2019s the reasoning behind the design that matters. \u201cThe key thing is that rococo designers used the same rhetoric to encourage our imagination to run free, and these pieces of porcelain are just as magical as a Disney castle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave.; (212) 535-7710<\/em>,<em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/\">MetMuseum.org<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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