Trompe-l'oeil, French for "deceive the eye," is a painting technique that uses precise, illusionistic rendering of perspective, light, shadow, and surface detail to make a two-dimensional painted image appear, at least momentarily, to be a real, three-dimensional object or space occupying the viewer's own physical environment. Practiced since antiquity, described in ancient accounts of Greek painters competing to outdo each other's illusionism, and developed to particular sophistication in Roman wall painting, Renaissance and Baroque ceiling and architectural painting, and later still-life painting traditions, trompe-l'oeil remains a technique used in both fine art and decorative and architectural painting wherever a convincingly deceptive illusion of real depth or objects is the goal.
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Trompe l'oeil illusionism relies on smooth tonal blending descended from sfumato modeling.
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Trompe-l'œil is an artistic technique that creates a highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe-l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real.
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