Trompe L'oeil

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(trôNp lö´yə): see illusionism.

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Illusionism - in art, a kind of visual trickery in which painted forms seem to be real. It is sometimes called trompe l'oeil [Fr.,=fool the eye]. The development of one-point perspective in the Renaissance advanced...