Tromp l'oeil

Trompe l’oeil

Fool the eye

Pompeian painter around 70 AD

Medieval painting, artist unknown, Russia

Lorenzo Monaco, Madonna of Humility, 1415 - 20

Leonardo Da Vinci, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, 1510

Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin, 1504

Petrus Christus , Portrait of a Cathusian , 1446

Andrea Mantegna, Ceiling Occulus, 1474

Renaissance Naturalism15th – 16th centuries

Baroque Illusionism17th and 18th centuries

Intention To create a “transparent window” onto the world

To bring into question the nature of perception

Context Development of a renewed interest in “humanism” and a the value of life on earth

Response to the many revolutions (scientific, religious, political) and the “authority of perception”

Stylistic priorities

Obsession with the representation of space using naturalistic perspective

Use of artistic virtuosity to make viewers question “what is real”

Jacopo d’Barberi, Still-Life with Partridge and Iron Gloves, 1504

Füssli, Johann Heinrich, Trompe-l'oeil 1750

John Pugh

18th Century Ceramic - France

Karen Dahl, Skating Cabbage with Crayons

Dan Anderson

Eric Serritella

Gail Kaplan

Janet Halligan

Geoffrey Luff

Kate Hopkins-Searle

Richard Shaw

Marilyn Levine

Sylvia Hyman

Works Cited

"Trompe L'oeil." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 30 July 2013. Web. 08 Aug. 2013.

Zamora, Lois P. "Trompe L'oeil Tricks:Borges' Baroque Illusionism." Trompe L'oeil Tricks. University of Houston, n.d. Web. 08 Aug. 2013.

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