#arthistory
Today's birthday of the artist Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695), a master of trompe-l'oeil. What's this?
Trompe-l'oeil is a special art technique to create an optical illusion. It means "deceive the eye."
Examples: painted window and out-of-window space to create an illusion of more space, 3 dimensions objects, people stepping out of the painting's frame, etc.
Here are some works from different times with trompe-l'oeil techniques.
