Tracing the thread…
Visionary filmmaker whose *The Gospel According to St. Matthew* and other works grapple with sacred imagery and Renaissance spirituality with the same intensity as Michelangelo's masterwork.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/RussiaPhilosophical director whose meditative approach to faith, light, and transcendence in films like *Andrei Rublev* captures the spiritual grandeur and human struggle depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.