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trompe-l'oeil

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Adj.1.trompe-l'oeil - creating the illusion of seeing reality; "the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"
unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"


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Whether the lie results in positive or negative outcomes is open to debate, as contributors analyze the changeable wife in The Odyssey, Ovid's advice to lovers, shifts and turns in Italian Baroque poetry, panoramic trompe-l'oeil, veiling and unveiling in the work of Jelloun, Redonnet's deceptive Candy Store, famous film failures, female anatomy flaps, the disguised God, and deception in the Lotus Sutra and the Vimalakirti Sutra.
Marina, 39, who runs her own specialist decoration service in London, will spend more than three months with one of France's leading experts in decorative painting and trompe-l'oeil.
Most strikingly, the fingers of her left hand rest on the actual frame, taking a characteristic trompe-l'oeil effect of Memling's, hands resting on a counter or frame, to an extreme degree.
 
 
 
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