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.
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