Disney's Sleeping Beauty has a fascinating art history connection with medieval tapestries, including the Unicorn Tapestries

The "Aztec gold" in Pirates of the Caribbean loosely borrows from actual Aztec art and mythology

Is Ragnar Kjartansson's The Visitors the greatest artwork of the 21st century?

Pixar's Coco brought ancient Mesoamerican architecture from Teotihuacan to life in the Land of the Dead

Disney’s villainous Evil Queen in Snow White is based on a famous medieval sculpture of Uta von Ballenstedt

Did you know Ariel in The Little Mermaid is influenced by Victorian art?

Moana's clothing and her connections to bark cloth (tapa) in the Pacific Islands

How does the new Indiana Jones attraction at Animal Kingdom relate to ancient Maya king's tomb? Find out in this post about king Pakal's.

This post considers the historical art and architecture references in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) as a way to understand the film

Talking about how the idea was hatched for a blog series about Disney animation and Pixar films and art history!