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Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; /trɒmpˈlɔɪ/ tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ) is an
artistic term for the
highly realistic optical illusion...
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trompe is a water-powered air compressor,
commonly used
before the
advent of the electric-powered compressor. A
trompe is
somewhat like an
airlift pump...
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Trompe le
Monde is the
fourth studio album by the
American alternative rock band Pixies,
released on
September 23, 1991 on 4AD in the
United Kingdom and...
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Trompe L'Oeil" is the
seventh episode in the
first season of the HBO
science fiction western thriller television series Westworld. The
episode aired on...
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Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800
painting Un
Trompe-l'œil
introduced the term
trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"),
applied to the
technique that...
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Trompe-l'œil is the
second album by the
indie rock band Malajube,
released in 2006 on Dare to Care Records. The
album is
inspired in part by
medical themes;...
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Flemish painter of
still lifes specialised in
vanitas still lifes and
trompe-l'œil paintings. He
worked in the
second half of the
seventeenth century...
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Roman paintings are wall paintings.
These may
contain the
first examples of
trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. The
Italian Renaissance is...
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trompe-l'œil frame. The
Portrait of a Carthusian,
dated about 1446, is the
earliest known example of
panel painting with a
trompe-l'œil fly.
Trompe-l'œil...
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under the name of Abbé
Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the
nickname "
Trompe-la-Mort" ("Dodgedeath" or "Cheats-Death"),
because he
managed to
avoid the...
