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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A trompe is a water-powered air compressor, commonly used before the advent of the electric-powered compressor. A trompe is somewhat like an airlift pump...
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Trompe le Monde is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 23, 1991 on 4AD in the United Kingdom and...
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"Trompe L'Oeil" is the seventh episode in the first season of the HBO science fiction western thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on...
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Cephenemyia trompe, also known as the reindeer nose botfly, is a species of botfly first described by Adolph Modéer in 1786. It belongs to the deer botfly...
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Pardon Mon Affaire (redirect from Un elephant ca trompe enormement)
Pardon Mon Affaire (French title: Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, in English literally An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive) is a 1976 French comedy...
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Vautrin (redirect from Trompe-la-Mort)
under the name of Abbé Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the nickname "Trompe-la-Mort" ("Dodgedeath" or "Cheats-Death"), because he managed to avoid the...
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a modification of the "trompe" (or "trombe"), which had been known in Europe at least since the sixteenth century. In a trompe, water falls from a reservoir...
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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...
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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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Roman paintings are wall paintings. These may contain the first examples of trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. The Italian Renaissance is...
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Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary. The band continued to tour and released Trompe le Monde in 1991, their final album before their break-up. The album included...
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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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Kim Deal (section Bossanova and Trompe le Monde)
the band to record Bossanova (1990). The band's final studio album was Trompe le Monde (1991). The recording sessions were fractious, and the whole band...
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in Trompe-l'oeil Style With Pistols and a Henri Iv Medaillon [17th Century] Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, 1672, Trompe l'oeil med pistoler "Trompe l´oeil...
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Franciscus Gijsbrechts (section Trompe-l'oeil)
a 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...
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Ronald Francis (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
Ron Francis is an artist who paints in a trompe-l'œil style. He was born Ronald Malcolm Francis in Stanmore, Sydney, Australia in September 1954. In 1974...
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Maigret's Mistake (redirect from Maigret se trompe)
Maigret's Mistake (French:Maigret se trompe) is a 1953 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. It...
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on recommendation from Deal's husband. "U-Mass" is the sixth track from Trompe le Monde. This sample contains the end of the first verse and the chorus...
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trumpeted in the fashion press: the Envol and Cyclone/Zigzag lines in 1948; the Trompe l'Oeil and Mid-Century lines in 1949; the Vertical and Oblique lines in...
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centuries. It has also been suggested that the name derives from the French jeu-trompe meaning 'toy trumpet'. The current French word for the instrument is guimbarde...
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other popular arts of the nineteenth century, including magic shows and trompe-l'œil paintings. Harding, Les. Elephant Story: Jumbo and P. T. Barnum Under...
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Le trompeur trompé (The Trickster Tricked) is a one-act opéra comique by Pierre Gaveaux, to a libretto by François Bernard-Valville. It premiered at the...
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Hague who worked in various locations in Germany. He was known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of game, hunting equipment, kitchen still lifes and letter...
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Modern sculpture Late modernism Naïve art Outsider art Portrait Prehistoric European art Queer art Realism Shock art Trompe-l'œil Western painting Category...
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still lifes had many subgenres; the breakfast piece was augmented by the trompe-l'œil, the flower bouquet, and the vanitas. In Spain there were much fewer...
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Gouais blanc (redirect from Trompe bouvier)
Boey, Sadoulo Bouyer, Seestock Grob, Tejer Szozeloe, Thalburger, Trompe Bouvier, Trompe Valet, Verdet, Verdin Blanc, Vionnier, Weisse Traube, Weisser Heunisch...
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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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Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (category Trompe-l'œil artists)
century. 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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looking 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...
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