What was the inspiration for the talking teapots and singing candelabra that populate Walt Disney's movies? A new exhibition in New York suggests they can be traced back to antiques and artwork that the animation master encountered in Paris as a young man.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition uncovers how Disney artists have for decades drawn from the lavish Rococo style of Sevres porcelain and gilded sofas, as well as from Gothic Revival architecture and medieval influences.
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