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unusual facts about Trompe-l'œil


Basilica of San Frediano

The sgraffiti are drawn in the art technique of trompe l’oeil, giving a false perspective and the illusion of a column.


110 Livingston Street

Several floors were added to the structure, and the courtyard was decorated with a trompe-l'œil mural of architectural features by muralist Richard Haas.

Alfred Frankenstein

Noted for championing American art, (see, Actual Art) his most famous book is After The Hunt, a volume that examined the trompe-l'œil movement in late 19th century and early 20th-century American art, focussing on the painters William Harnett and John Frederick Peto.

Bernard Parmegiani

During a visit to America in the late 1960s, he researched the link between music and video and on his return produced several musical videos, including L'Œil écoute, and L’Écran transparent (1973) during a residency at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.

Château de Condé

Highlights include the "Watteau" wing and its recently discovered frescoes, Richelieu's bed chamber, the magnificent "trompe-l'œil" effects of Servandoni, the "little private apartments" and the outstanding drawing room decorated by Oudry.

Château de Syam

Decoration of the house includes polychrome painting, trompe-l'oeil murals in the eye of the dome, original wallpapers produced by Xavier Mader for the manufacturer Joseph Dufour et Cie, candelabra and chandeliers by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, and original Empire and Restauration period furniture.

Daniel Schneidermann

In 1992, he began to write columns on television, daily at first, for Le Monde, critiquing the way in which TV presents information and influences viewers, continuing the tradition of television criticism begun thirty years earlier by writers like François Mauriac or Morvan Lebesque (see, on this subject, the book The Critical Eye - The Television Critic (L'œil critique - Le journaliste critique de télévision) by Jérôme Bourdon and Jean-Michel Frodon.

Daniela Benedini

Daniela Benedini (born May 24, 1972 in Desio, Italy) is an Italian contemporary painter and decorator who is specialized in the use of the Trompe l'oeil.

Écris l'histoire

It was also covered in 2011 by Claire Keim, Yannick Noah and Maurane on their album 2011: Dans l'œil des Enfoirés.

Gooderham Building

The Flatiron Mural by renowned Canadian artist Derek Michael Besant uses a trompe l'oeil effect to not only make the wall appear to have more windows than it does, but to also give it a more mobile effect by having its edges 'fluttering' away where they are not 'tacked' down.

Hand model

Some hand artists, like Guido Daniele, produce images that are trompe l'oeil representations of wild animals painted on people's hands.

John F. Peto

John Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist William Harnett.

LaSalle Towers Apartments

During the renovation, the exterior of the building was covered on three sides with trompe-l'œil murals by Richard Haas.

Ocean Island Inn

The south side of the building has a Trompe-l'œil of "The Honeymooners" – depicting two characters from the television show The Honeymooners – and a Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest mural painted by Robert Scott Dobie, a Vancouver Island-born artist.

Otis Kaye

Otis Kaye carried on the trompe l'oeil tradition of William Harnett, John Frederick Peto, and John Haberle, and is esteemed particularly for his works which include U.S. currency.

Pomona Envisions the Future

As a locomotive approaches the end of the first section of the wall the landscape ends in trees that wrap around the corner of the reveal wall and the narrative picks up with a nod to Mexican muralists shown as a Diego Rivera influenced trompe l'oeil relief of laborers supporting a bowl containing the fruits of labor.

Rathaus, Vienna

Recently finished renovations (2000) include the re-opening of the neo-baroque Salon Ziehrer and the redesigned Lanner-Lehar Hall with wall and ceiling murals by German Trompe-l'œil artist Rainer Maria Latzke.

St. Kazimierz Church

Between 1718 and 1721 the trompe-l'œil altars of St. Casimir and Virgin Mary were sponsored by Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, voivode of Vilnius.

Take It Easy

The trompe-l'œil mural on the wall behind the statue is that of a storefront, and includes what would appear to be the reflection of a red flatbed Ford pickup truck driven by a blonde-haired woman.

Tromp

Trompe, a hydropowered pump which produces pressurised air


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