Large Vagına Gallery

Lyndon (1975)

The Best "easy" to analyze, articulate why the reconstruction of famous paintings of the period.
scenes expose clearly a large number of citations that come from painting a detailed study of English painting dell'700. Let's start

different views from the residence of Lyndon, with its park, are clearly related to the English landscape painting of the period, not only as to the composition, but also the materiality of color deliberately grainy and pasty warm.
References can be found in the paintings of Constable.

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John Constable Malvern Hal (1809)


Thomas Gainsborough painted A walk in the morning, Stanley Kubrick draws from this painting to build sequence in which Lyndon walk in a park.

Barry Lindon


Thomas Gainsborough, A walk in the morning (1785)

art gallery, where Barry Lyndon is "interested" in buying paintings , is created through the study of some paintings of Johann Joseph Zoffany, German painter, active mainly in England during the second sets of 700.

Barry Lyndon


Johann Joseph Zoffany, Morse's Gallery og the Louvre (1831-33)

Johann Joseph Zoffany, Ufizzi of the Forum (1772)


"The real composition of our shots were very loyal to the paintings of" production designer Ken Adam.

The particular sequence in which Barry buys a horse for little Bryan, is exactly true to the paintings of George Stubbs, an artist known for painting horses almost always.

Barry Lyndon


George Stubbs, Eclipse (1769)

George Stubbs, Eclipse first, the rest nowhere

George Stubbs, Molly Loglegs (1762)

George Stubbs Tristram Shandy (1760)


"What I liked in addition to Stanley, some paintings were weird like Hogarth, I think, where they saw pictures hanging on the walls and nothing above under "- production designer Ken Adam.

This type of composition we find it in two shots: one where Barry Lyndon is lying asleep on a chair at his residence, taking the same position as the protagonist of the painting Wedding fashion , the second in the shadow of a club, the background pictures on the walls and upholstery are the green quote the artist.

Barry Lyndon


William Hogarth, Breakfast (1743-44)


William Hogarth, Contract of Marriage (1743)

William Hogarth, the morning of the Countess (1743)

Another artist used as a reference is Swiss Fussli. His paintings are used to recreate the same atmosphere as well as the composition of light and shadows in a frame, where Lady Lyndon collapses on her bed sore.

Barry Lyndon


Johann H. Fussli, nightmare (1781)

Johan H. Fussli, Nightmare Night (1781)