Trompe-L'oeil by Flaminio Gualdoni
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.
Flaminio Gualdoni is professor of the history of ancient art at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. He is the former director of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy. He is a contributing editor of The Art Newspaper and, in addition to his many books on art history, he is the author of Art: The Twentieth Century (Skira, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9788861305403 |
| ISBN 10 | 8861305407 |
| Title | Trompe-L'oeil |
| Author | Flaminio Gualdoni |
| Series | Skira Mini Art Books |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Skira |
| Year published | 2008-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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