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Pozzo, Andreo: trompe l'oeil dome Harnett, William: Trophy of the Hunt Painting by John Frederick Peto showing a violin and bow hanging on a green door with sheet music behind, rendered in trompe l'oeil style to create a realistic three-dimensional effect.
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Pozzo, Andreo: trompe l'oeil dome Trompe l'oeil dome, ceiling painting by Andreo Pozzo; in the Jesuit Church, Vienna.

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Trompe l’oeil, in painting, the representation of an object with such verisimilitude as to deceive the viewer concerning the material reality of the object. This idea appealed to the ancient Greeks who were newly emancipated from the conventional stylizations of earlier art. Zeuxis, for example, reportedly painted such realistic grapes that birds tried to eat them. The technique was also popular with Roman muralists. Although trompe l’oeil never achieved the status of a major artistic...

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