Trompe-l’œil
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.
Saint Ferréol Church in Orgueil, Vault in trompe-l'œil of the choir.
la falsa cupola di Sant'Ignazio a Roma by Andrea Pozzo
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
Genova - Palazzo Ducale
Painted ceiling in the church Santa Maria del Corlo in Lonato/Italy
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
The staircase group, by Charles Willson Peale
Gallery in château de Tanlay, Burgundy, France
"End of the world" in the gardens of Schwetzingen