He revived, and put to titanic use, the antique medium of fresco painting.

NEWYORKER: The Painting on the Wall

Transporting the painting into such a different medium, however, took patience: The result is a mix of old-fashioned craftsmanship and the latest in digital film-making technology.

CNN: Bringing Bruegel to the big screen

In rejecting the one approach, Sir Ernst was almost bound to abandon the other, for both virtually airbrush away the one paramount thing that makes painting distinctive from the other arts: that it is a visual medium.

ECONOMIST: Look and learn