Deceptions and illusions : five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting /
"Trompe l'oeil, French for "fool or deceive the eye", is a genre dating back to antiquity that has fascinated both painters and viewers from the Renaissance to the present day. Both witty and serious, it describes paintings that imitate natural appearances so convincingly that vi...
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Washington : [London] :
National Gallery of Art ; Lund Humphries,
c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Trompe l'oeil, the underestimated trick / Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
- The misperception of reality / Wolf Singer
- Honest lies / Alberto Veca
- Illusionism in Dutch and Flemish art / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
- Con artists: Harnett, Haberle, and their American accomplices / Paul Staiti.