Trompe l'oeil / Flaminio Gualdoni ; [translation, Robert Burns].
By: Gualdoni, Flaminio
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BookSeries: SkiraMiniARTbooks.Publisher: Milano, Italy : Skira, 2008Description: 95 p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.ISBN: 9788861305403.Subject(s): Realism in art | Trompe l'oeil paintingDDC classification: 759
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible. A heightened form of illusionism, the art of trompe-l'oeil flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render objects and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both witty and serious, trompe-l'oeil is a game artists play with spectators to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95).