Man at the Window by Samuel van Hoogstraten – my daily art display

My Daily Art Display today enters the world of trompe l’oeil.  The term is French and literally means “trick of the eye”.  It is a kind of artistic illusionism which gives the appearance of three-dimensional realism.  This story of trompe l’oeil originated in ancient Greece.  Pliny the Elder records in his Natural Histories the famous…

November 16: Show On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle

Old man looking through a window hi-res stock photography and

At Christie's Old Master and Early British Drawings and

Kunsthistorisches Museum: Color and Illusion

A Girl with a Broom

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz~The painter - Canvas printing - Paintings

The Dynamic Duo Of Delft

beesfirstappearance

Old Man at the Window Painting by Samuel van Hoogstraten - Pixels

The Dutch Masters Are Back: Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition Opens

Maaike Dirkx Rembrandt's Room