a related illusion in architecture. The phrase, which can also be spelled without the hyphen and ligature in English as trompe l'oeil, originates with...
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Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...
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The 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...
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Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war...
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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
oval dome. Painted ceilings, crowded with angels and saints and trompe-l'œil architectural effects, were an important feature of the Italian High Baroque...
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Ottoman architecture is an architectural style or tradition that developed under the Ottoman Empire over a long period, undergoing some significant changes...
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of ruins becoming very popular. Closely related genres are architectural fantasies and trompe-l'oeils, especially illusionistic ceiling painting, and cityscapes...
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framed or recessed wall panels, or applied directly onto flat walls using trompe-l'œil techniques to create the illusion of three-dimensional borders, were...
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The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern...
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containing statues of the Nine Worthies. In Fra Filippo Lippi's Madonna, the trompe-l'œil niche frames her as with the canopy of estate that was positioned...
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San Sebastian Church (Manila) (category Spanish Colonial architecture in the Philippines)
Tampingco and Félix Martínez to give the appearance of marble and jasper. Trompe-l'œil paintings of saints and martyrs by Rocha were used to decorate the...
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Art Deco (redirect from Art Deco architecture)
Arts décoratifs (lit. 'Decorative Arts'), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just...
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Arts and Crafts movement (redirect from Arts and Crafts architecture)
anticipated by Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), a leader in the Gothic revival in architecture. For example, he advocated truth to material, structure, and function...
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shaped domes, fragmentary architectural elements, dramatic use of light, rich colors and ornaments, large ceiling frescoes, trompe-l'œil illusions and a façade...
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Ortaköy Mosque (section Architecture)
adorned with Trompe-l'œil frescoes, which were a feature first introduced to Ottoman architecture during the reign of Abdülmecid I. The trompe-l'œil paintings...
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Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period...
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Bauhaus (redirect from Bauhaus architecture)
modernist architecture, and architectural education. The Bauhaus movement had a profound influence on subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic...
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art include their architecture, crafts (especially jewellery), and their script. The only remaining examples of Visigothic architecture from the 6th century...
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with a mural by the artist Richard Haas, which was completed in 1975. The trompe-l'œil mural of a Classical-style building and dome provides a contrast to...
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Neoclassicism (redirect from Neoclassical Art and Architecture)
replaced by caryathids), volute corbels, triglyphs with guttae (in relief and trompe-l'œil). Panel win an grotesque in the Hôtel Gouthière, Paris, unknown architect...
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Gothic art (redirect from Gothic architecture and art)
in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and...
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Illusionistic ceiling painting (category Baroque architecture in Italy)
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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surfaces below the ceiling, angels and putti are floating before trompe-l'œil architecture showing scenes from Habsburg history. The walls depict the terrestrial...
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Art Nouveau (redirect from Art Nouveau architecture)
French: [aʁ nuvo] ; lit. 'New Art') is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired...
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Rococo (redirect from Rococo (architecture))
of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil...
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Ornament (art) (redirect from Ornament (architecture))
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental...
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During this period, disciplines such as painting, goldsmithing and architecture with marked Caliphate influences were cultivated in a context of medieval...
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from the interior of the Cupola module on the International Space Station. Trompe-l'œil painting of a cupola in a church in Northern Italy (Brivio) The term...
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Pre-Romanesque art and architecture is the period in European art from either, the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 AD or from the Carolingian...
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