EditorialA Prince reading from a roll. Le Fait du Governement d'un Prince (The government. England; circa 1500. (Whole folio) A prince reading from a roll, with two priests and four other figures round him; a greyhound lies on the floor.Through a doorway, a pri...
EditorialTrompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain. Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630-1673); Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635-1681). Date: 1658. Dimensions: 18 1/4 ? 25 1/8 in. (46.5 ? 63.9 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: Netherlands.
EditorialTrompe l'oeil. A Cabinet in the Artist's Studio. Date/Period: From 1670 until 1671. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,320 mm (51.96 in); Width: 1,990 mm (78.34 in).
EditorialTemporale; Christmas Day.The Virgin, child,and Joseph with angels and shepherds.Text with initial 'R', a white rose. Borders of trompe l'oeil decoration with acanthus, flowers, strawberries and birds. Isabella Breviary. Breviary, Use of the Dominicans ...
EditorialMemorials to the Saints. St Roche showing his wound to an angel, and a dog. Borders of trompe l'oeil decoration with flowers and a butterfly. Produced for Joanna of Ghistelles, Abbess of Messines, near Ypres. Prayerbook of Joanna of Ghistelles [Prayerb...
EditorialItaly. Rome. The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius. Trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco by Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). The saint welcomed into paradise by Christ and the Virgin Mary and surrounded by allegorical representations of all four cont...
EditorialItaly. Rome. The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius. Trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco by Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). The saint welcomed into paradise by Christ and the Virgin Mary and surrounded by allegorical representations of all four cont...
EditorialCornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1657-1683). Flemish painter. Trompe l'oeil. The Reverse of a Framed Painting. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialThe creation. Temporale; Septuagesima Sunday.The Creator above; landscape with animals, including horse, lion, camel and porcupine. Text with initial 'P', a pink rose. Borders of trompe l'oeil decoration with acanthus, a bird, and two men. Isabella Br...
Editorial[Whole folio] Battle scene, probably a reference the the Battle of étamps in 604, in which Thierry, King of Burgundy, defeated Lothaire, King of France. Thierry, on a white horse, contemplates the dead and the wounded French. Banners with St. Andrew's...
EditorialVaux-le-Vicomte, " Salon des Muses", trompe-l'oeil ceiling with murals of the muses and a raised dais. Moliere's " Ecole des Maris" was performed here for the guests of Nicolas Fouquet on July 12, 1661. For Vaux-le-Vicomte see 14-01...
EditorialTrompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain. Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630-1673); Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635-1681). Date: 1658. Dimensions: 18 1/4 ? 25 1/8 in. (46.5 ? 63.9 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: Netherlands.
EditorialPalais Royal: Escalier d'honneur designed by Contant d'Ivry. The stairwell consists of arched openings with grisaille-paintings in trompe-loeuil technique. Wrought-iron banister by Corbin and Caffieri. Today the Palais Royal is the seat of the Conseil ...
EditorialFigure of a Plant in an Urn, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Urn with gadrooning containing trompe l'oeil agave plant., Germany, 18th century, ceramics, Decorative Art...
EditorialPleated fan, Parchment leaf gilded and painted with gouache, pierced and carved ivory sticks, gilded and silvered, rivet set with a faceted stone, Pleated fan. Parchment leaf gilded and painted in gouache showing two boys in a landscape next to a tomb....
EditorialTrompe l'?il, with a draughtsman sketching a view of the Navy Hospital in King's Island on the right, and the town of Mahón seen in distance on the left, lying over a plan of St. Phillip's Castle and entrance to the Harbour. A South View of the Navy ...
EditorialDesign for the Trompe L'Oeil Decoration of a Ceiling, 18th century, Ink and brown wash, 4-1/2 x 10-1/2 in (irregular), Anonymous, Italian, 18th century.
EditorialDesign for a Square Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Four Evangelists, 18th century, Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk, with ruler, and compass-work; glued onto secondary paper support, 11-3/8 x 10-11/16 in, Anonymous, Italian...
EditorialNature morte en trompe-l'oeil: le tabac. Allegorie de l'odorat-Still-life in trompe l'oeil manner: tobacco. Allegory of smell. Canvas, 69 x 50 cm R. F. 1955-17.
Editorial" Pilatus-House",1784, a typical Bavarian Trompe-l'oeil house full of mock columns,balconies and staircases. The typically Alpine technique is called " Lueftl-malerei".
EditorialVilla Pisani, supraporte in Trompe-l'oeil technique by Jacopo Guarana, 1770. Built by the Venetian Pisani family, the Villa Pisani later became the property of Napoleon I, Eugene Beauharnais, and to the Italian Royal family. See also 14-02-06 / 1-20.
EditorialTrompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain. Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630-1673); Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635-1681). Date: 1658. Dimensions: 18 1/4 ? 25 1/8 in. (46.5 ? 63.9 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: Netherlands.