Art is the Heart of Disney’s Riviera Resort

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Greetings and salutations, my fellow travelers! One of the things I love collecting is art for my walls. Art prints, movie posters, and more are framed and added wherever I can put them. Some of my favorite art pieces are at Disney resorts, especially at Disney’s Riviera Resort. So today, I’m going to be going over a lot of the different art you can find around this breezy European-themed resort.

A painting of the exterior of Disney’s Riviera Resort with foliage and a walking path along the waterside at sunset is featured in a dark wooden frame on a beige interior wall at the resort

 

The Mosaics at the Skyliner

Let’s start with some of the really iconic Riviera art. When you get off the Skyliner at the Riviera station, you’ll pass through an archway leading to the resort. This area features some very nice fountains and two stunning mosaics that run from the ground on each side all the way to the top and across the entire ceiling of the archway. The two mosaics are made up of thousands of individual pieces of colored glass, with one depicting Big Ben and Neverland from Peter Pan with Peter and the Darling children flying across the ceiling. The other features Rapunzel’s tower and the lantern festival in the Kingdom of Corona from Tangled.

A large mosaic depicting Peter Pan and the Darling children flying through the night sky over the London skyline to Neverland covers the walls and ceiling over a fountain and walkway into Disney’s Riviera Resort.

A large mosaic depicting Rapunzel’s tower, castle, and floating lanterns in a purple nighttime sky covers the walls and ceiling over a fountain and walkway into Disney’s Riviera Resort.

A mosaic of Rapunzel’s castle under a purple, nighttime sky is seen. There are numerous yellow and orange lanterns floating around and above the castle, and the small village is also depicted.

 

I want to go to the movies, s’il vous plaît!

This one may not stand out as much as others, but as someone who loves collecting theatrical movie posters, I have to mention the international Disney movie posters you can find at the Riviera. If you were ever curious about the French and Italian versions of your recent favorites, you can find them on display here.

International movie posters line a hallway wall at Disney’s Riviera Resort. The posters feature the Italian and French titles and tag lines for Disney animated films such as Finding Dory, Moana, and Ralph Breaks the Internet.

International movie posters for Moana and Inside Out are displayed in black frames at Disney’s Riviera Resort. The film titles and tag lines are in French on the posters.

 

Wandering the Hallways

The hallways of the Riviera are home to a whole bunch of amazing paintings covering multiple art styles. There are the more realistic ones of characters like Alice, the Darling family, and, my favorite as a book nerd, Belle reading by a fountain. There are taller, stylized Disney princess pieces featuring Rapunzel, Ariel, Cinderella, and Snow White, and there are impressionist pieces with Wall-E and Eve as well. It’s definitely worth exploring the resort to see all the different pieces you can find.

A painting of Alice in Wonderland in a gold frame. Alice wears her classic blue dress with white apron, and holds Dinah, her brown cat who is looking up at a pink butterfly.

Four paintings, each of a Disney princess, are displayed in gold frames. From left to right the artworks feature Ariel as a mermaid with flounder in the sea, Rapunzel looking up at her lanterns, Cinderella feeding her horse and a goose, and Snow White with some blue birds.

A painting of 3 geese wearing pastel bonnets and walking along a French cobblestone road under a blue, starry sky is displayed in a black frame at Disney’s Riviera Resort.

 

A Full Gallery Without Leaving Your Room

One of the really great parts of the Riviera’s varied art is that you don’t even have to leave your room to enjoy it. For those who like an abstract style of art, there are paintings featuring Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and Chip, as well as single-line drawings of Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto. There’s also a stylized abstract piece from 101 Dalmatians or Peter Pan behind the pull-down beds.

Framed art pieces depicting Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and characters from Beauty and the Beast are displayed in a One Bedroom Villa at Disney’s Riviera Resort. 3 of the pieces are drawings featuring Mickey and Minnie, and the largest is an abstract painting of Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs. Pott’s and Chip on a brown table with a blue background.

For lovers of the impressionist style, there’s a really great piece of art of Remy making a pie, and another personal favorite of mine is the Aristocats napping on an old-fashioned phonograph.

A painting featuring Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz from the classic film The Aristocats shows the cats sleeping and playing around an old-fashioned wood and brass phonograph. The painting also depicts a hidden Mickey in the black balcony railing behind Marie and the grey resort exterior is seen in the background.

You can also find an old-fashioned stage poster for Minnie in a show called Mademoiselle Mouse and a watercolor of Mickey and Minnie. 

A poster featuring Minnie and Mickey Mouse in “Mademoiselle Mouse” is shown on the wall of a Deluxe Studio at Disney’s Riviera Resort. In the poster, Minnie attends a concert hall and wears a white gown while dancing, while Mickey’s silhouette is dark and mysterious looking.

 

Not Everything is in Plain Sight

Lastly, be sure to check out details beyond what’s on the walls. For example, the balcony railings feature both a hidden Mickey and a hidden Minnie in the ironwork—a detail you won’t find at other resorts.

A black wrought-iron Mickey-head silhouette is seen in the balcony railings at Disney’s Riviera Resort. In the distance, the resort grounds including the Skyliner station and sunny blue sky can be seen.

Obviously, I wish I could bring a lot of these items home with me to decorate my place, but I want to know what your favorite pieces of resort art are. Is there a resort you love specifically for the art?

A colorful art piece displays navy blue drawings of Minnie Mouse and Pluto both holding flowers, with lots of multicolored flowers and butterflies around them, as well as some paw prints and a white background. At the bottom of the piece, the French phrase “les splendeurs du jardin” is written in black script.

Until next time, fellow travelers!

~Stephen

 

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