Trompe l'oeil

Spouses bedroom, Mantegna, Palazzo ducale di Mantova

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Trompe l'oeil, the French "tromper, deceive, and 'oeil, eye, nature is a painting technique, based on the use of light and shadow and perspective, that is life in such a way as to seem to eyes of the spectator an illusion of reality. It creates an ambiguity between the picture plane and the observer, be doing what in reality is three-dimensional two-dimensional, so in fact the observer perceives an illusory reality does not exist, created artificially through pictorial means . It is based largely on creating a sort of setting time wisely to incorporate functional elements to get then to meld with the architecture and at the same time to push the limits. The perfect simulation of the physical world creates a subtle play of between reality and perceptual illusion in which modern man is lost and in turn lose the limitations imposed by the phenomenological world.