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Deceptions and illusions : five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting
- Title
- Deceptions and illusions : five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting / Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ; with essays by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ... [et al.].
- Author
- Ebert-Schifferer, S.
- Publication
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; [Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt.] : Lund Humphries, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
- Description
- 407 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 32 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-400) and index.
- 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 -- Catalogue -- 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.
- Call Number
- JQG 03-46
- ISBN
- 0853318786 (alk. paper)
- 0894682962 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002011256
- OCLC
- 50253061
- Author
- Ebert-Schifferer, S.
- Title
- Deceptions and illusions : five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting / Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ; with essays by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; [Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt.] : Lund Humphries, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-400) and index.
- Added Author
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
- Research Call Number
- JQG 03-46