Dan raises the excellent example of _I've Heard the Mermaids
Singing_, which, IMHO, contains one of the most innovative
"depictions" of original works of art in film.
 
Tarkovsky's _Andrei Rublev_ uses actual film (or stills?) of icons
attributed to Rublev and/or his school of painting.  This use is all
the more stunning because these shots are in color and constitute
the visual and substantive payoff for the preceding three hours
(more or less) of black and white film.
 
Getting back to the initial "name that painting" strand of this thread,
Tarkovsky uses Leonardo da Vinci's _Adoration of the Three Wise
Men_ in the opening titles of _The Sacrifice_.  The painting features
metaphorically, and a reproduction actually appears, in the film
 
Cynthia
 
 
Cynthia Bussiere
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