Trompe-l’œil
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Trompe-l'œil (French for "trick the eye" from tromper - to deceive and l'œil - the eye; pronounced as "trom ploy") is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist.
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 la falsa cupola di Sant'Ignazio a Roma by Andrea Pozzo |
 "End of the world" in the gardens of Schwetzingen |
 Trompe l'oeil on wall in Narbonne, France |
 Schüfftan process |
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 Escaping Criticism, 1874, by Pere Borrell del Caso, oil on canvas, Banco de España, Madrid. |
 Trompe-l'œil by Johann Heinrich Füssli (Ermitage, St. Petersburg) |
 Painter with a Pipe and Book by Gerard Dou. c.1654 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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 Genova - Palazzo Ducale |
 Painted ceiling in the church Santa Maria del Corlo in Lonato/Italy |
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 Dome fresco in the Church Santa Maria della Carità in Brescia/Italy |
 Villa in Brescia/Italy with a facade of false architecture |
 Illusion of a factory entrance. Trompe-l'œil by E.Strakeljahn, Solingen, Germany |
