Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; /trɒmpˈlɔɪ/ tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion...
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critics, and in particular for the ending. The title comes from the art of trompe-l'œil. Theresa meets with Charlotte where it is revealed Theresa was colluding...
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Trompe-l'œil is a 112-meter-long color field painting created in 1998 by Maria Bettina Cogliatti. It overlooks the Katastrophenbucht ("disaster bay") in...
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Ames room (section Trompe-l'œil)
predecessor, from as early as the 15th century, the movement in art called trompe-l'œil, in which the artist creates the illusion of three-dimensional space...
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Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"), applied to the technique that uses...
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Trompe-l'œil is the second album by the indie rock band Malajube, released in 2006 on Dare to Care Records. The album is inspired in part by medical themes;...
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Musca depicta (section Trompe-l'œil fly)
trompe-l'œil frame. The Portrait of a Carthusian, dated about 1446, is the earliest known example of panel painting with a trompe-l'œil fly. Trompe-l'œil...
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Santa Maria presso San Satiro (section Trompe-l'œil)
Ambrose. The church is known for its false apse, an early example of trompe-l'œil, attributed to Donato Bramante. The church lies on the site of a primitive...
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song (rather than a song lyric), and is a play on the French phrase "Trompe-l'œil", a painting technique in which the painter fools the viewer into thinking...
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up at heaven. Another feature of Baroque churches are the quadratura; trompe-l'œil paintings on the ceiling in stucco frames, either real or painted, crowded...
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still-life elements ostensibly to reproduce a 'slice of life'". The trompe-l'œil painting, which intends to deceive the viewer into thinking the scene...
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scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It...
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Franciscus Gijsbrechts (section Trompe-l'oeil)
Flemish painter of still lifes specialised in vanitas still lifes and trompe-l'œil paintings. He worked in the second half of the seventeenth century in...
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unconventional and artistic themes like the human body, insects, or trompe-l'œil, and for the use of bright colors like her "shocking pink". Schiaparelli...
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Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
He was a court painter to the Danish royal family. He specialised in trompe-l'œil still lifes, an artistic genre which uses visual tricks to give viewers...
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Otis Kaye (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
century. He is noted especially for trompe-l'œil paintings of U.S. currency. Otis Kaye carried on the trompe-l'œil tradition of William Harnett, John Frederick...
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John F. Peto (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
American trompe-l'œil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe-l'œil artist...
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Evert Collier (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
1708) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter known for vanitas and trompe-l'œil paintings. His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert"...
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entire composition to present unified works. Op art also stems from trompe-l'œil and anamorphosis. Links with psychological research have also been made...
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using oil or water-based media. The styles can vary from abstract to trompe-l'œil (a French term for "fool" or "trick the eye"). Initiated by the works...
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trompe-l'œil is a wrongly attributed comparison, an error in observation or interpretation made by many critics of the 1970s and 1980s. Trompe-l'œil paintings...
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John Pugh (artist) (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
John Pugh (born 1957) is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'œil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the...
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figural relief, richly ornamented altars, extensive gilding, and bold trompe-l'œil paintings in the "dome" at its crossing and in the nave ceiling all produce...
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interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura (i.e. trompe-l'œil painting combined with sculpture): the eye is drawn upward, giving the...
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of the real thing. Other art forms that play with simulacra include trompe-l'œil, pop art, Italian neorealism, and French New Wave. Simulacra have long...
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of Moses and the Life of Christ, offset by papal portraits above and trompe-l'œil drapery below. They were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483 Sixtus...
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quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe-l'œil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects...
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Sala delle Asse in the Sforza Castle, c. 1498. The project became a trompe-l'œil decoration that made the great hall appear to be a pergola created by...
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first studio album since their commercial breakthrough in 2006 with Trompe-l'œil. Julien Mineau, the band's lead singer and primary songwriter, has described...
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Portrait of a Carthusian (category Trompe-l'œil paintings)
Portrait of a Carthusian sports a trompe-l'œil fly on the center of its trompe-l'œil lower frame. The addition of trompe-l'œil flies to works of art is believed...
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