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Deceptions and illusions : five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting / Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ; with essays by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebert-Schifferer, S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trompe l'oeil painting.
- Still-life painting.
- Physical Description:
- 407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; [Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.] ; [Burlington, Vt.] : Lund Humphries, 2002.
- Contents:
- Trompe l'oeil : the underestimated trick / Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
- The misperception of reality / Wolf Singer
- Honest lies : the meaning, language, and instruments of trompe l'oeil / Alberto Veca
- Illusionism in Dutch and Flemish art / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
- Con artists : Harnett, Haberle, and their American accomplices / Paul Staiti
- The grapes of Zeuxis
- The curtain of Parrhasios
- Xenia and trophies of the hunt
- Giotto's fly and the observation of nature
- Temptation for the hand
- Things on the wall
- Niches, cupboards, cabinets
- In and out of the picture
- The painting as object
- The object as art.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-400) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0853318786
- 0894682962
- OCLC:
- 50253061
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