Themes of Inspiration
May 31 1938
•0h 9m
•A short film about the way that Brueghel and other Flemish painters depicted the lives of their countrymen. The faces of living locals are compared to their now-immortal artistic counterparts. The film won the first prize for documentary at the 1938 Venice Film Festival.
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