Shunkosai Hokuei made a visual quotation of Hokusai's design in the illustration above, including Iemon as he turns to meet the apparition, drawing his sword.

More direct visual quotations began to appear in the 1970s.

Mr. Eastwood does not generally traffic in allusions or visual quotations; his visual style is decidedly classical, rather than postmodern, emphasizing plainness, transparency and the efficient delivery of narrative information.

The source of the movie's seductive appeal lies less in its vivid fakery - the mock vintage-Technicolor hues, the musical and visual quotations, the miasma of camp hanging in the air - than in its disarming sincerity.

The film was a major influence on Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant Apocalypse Now, which contained many deliberate visual quotations from Aguirre.

Trying to stop this visual quotation is, well, an illustration of the popular expression for officious, nit-picking regulations and requirements.

But these visual and aural quotations are not famous merely for being famous.

Michael Chapman Tatistcheff & Company 50 West 57th Street Manhattan Through Oct. 25 Michael Chapman's paintings are full of visual quotations, principally from Edward Hopper.

Histoire(s) du cinéma is composed almost entirely of visual and auditory quotations from films, some famous and some obscure.

They were playing with images, with decorative motifs, visual quotations drawn from pop culture or the historical styles.