trompe l'oeil
Examples of trompe l'oeil in the following topics:
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Michelangelo
- He was originally commissioned to paint tromp-l'oeil coffers after the original ceiling developed a crack.
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Painting in the Early Roman Empire
- These trompe l'oeil images are intended to trick the eye into believing that the walls of a building have dissolved into the depicted three-dimensional space.