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.
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
Verona
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
