This appears to be the earliest small-scale trompe-l'œil painting since antiquity.

A typical trompe-l'œil mural might depict a window, door, or hallway, intended to suggest a larger room.

They include an unsuual trompe-l'œil representation of the Temptation, made to look like a textile wall hanging.

Hirst began using the hyper-realistic trompe-l'œil technique and masculine iconography.

Above it is a rare English-style trompe-l'œil ceiling.

The walls were painted in naive Trompe-l'œil style to resemble a Classical masonry building.

A series of three-dimensional Trompe-l'œil works includes objects cast into bronze, painted to give the appearance of the original object.

The palace houses a ballroom with Italian Trompe-l'œil decorations in Baroque style.

Though now considered a Spanish invention, the classic trompe-l'œil presentation of fruit on a stone slab was common in ancient Rome.

Around 1988 he began painting trompe-l'œil murals in affiliation with a company called 'Fresco Site Specific Art'.

A set of seven extraordinarily realistic trompe-l'œil false perspectives provide the illusion of long street views, while actually the sets recede only a few meters.

Then he runs towards what appears to be a hallway, but when he runs up this as well we realize that it is a large trompe-l'œil mural.

The park contains a two-story trompe-l'œil mural by John Pugh, and a life-size bronze statue of a man standing on a corner, with a guitar.

An example of interior trompe-l'œil work is his decoration of toilet rooms in residences as the command station of a submarine or a space exploration vehicle.

The dome of Santa Maria Assumpta (c. 1770) in Sabbioneta, also designed by Bibiena, employs a more complex trompe-l'œil effect.

Cortona's panegyric Trompe-l'œil extavaganzas have lost favor in minimalist times, yet they are precursors of sunny and cherubim infested rococo excesses.

Oberammergau is also famous for its "Lüftlmalerei," or frescoes, of traditional Bavarian themes, fairy tales, religious scenes or architectural trompe-l'œil found on many homes and buildings.

Fyodor Glinka described Gonzaga's three-dimensional trompe-l'œil folly in Pavlovsk Park (1815): "What is a reality and what is a dream?

The American trompe-l'œil paintings also flourished during this period, created by John Haberle, William Michael Harnett, and John Frederick Peto.

In Paris, on November 2008, Gwyneth Paltrow attended the film première of Two Lovers in a short, black-and-white trompe-l'œil corset dress by Antonio Berardi.

Earth's "pocket universe" extends only to the edges of the solar system; the rest of the visible universe is effectively a 3-D Trompe-l'œil on the walls of the pocket universe.

An example of a perfect architectural trompe-l'œil is the illusionistic dome in the Jesuit church, Vienna, by Andrea Pozzo, which is only slightly curved but gives the impression of true architecture.

A fanciful form of architectural trompe-l'œil is known as quodlibet which features realistically rendered paintings of such items as paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons and scissors, apparently accidentally left lying around, painted on walls.

Highlights include the "Watteau" wing and its recently discovered frescoes, Richelieu's bed chamber, the magnificent "trompe-l'œil" effects of Servandoni, the "little private apartments" and the outstanding drawing room decorated by Oudry.

The theatre is loosely moddeled on the Paris Opera, but is built in a mixture of styles, combining elements such as classical trompe-l'œil effects and Greek capitals side by side with art deco features.

The trompe l'oeil, for example, is a French art form.

What you get is a culture of trompe l'oeil degeneracy.

Look again, even a third time, and suddenly the trompe l'oeil characters become 6025.

These days, a lot of that realism is trompe l'oeil.

Possibly photography may have a new life as trompe l'oeil.

Green Band is the very finest of trompe l'oeil, the best.

The trompe l'oeil was enough to make him dizzy, and so he quickly looked down.

The result was an interior of trompe l'oeil and mirrors.

His latest trompe l'oeil pieces only happen to be cabinets.

Then again it could just as easily be a trompe l'oeil of decay.

She is known for her abstract sculptures and trompe l'oeil pieces.

So he balances his trompe l'oeil work with illustrations for books.

There, the art of trompe l'oeil is thriving in the third dimension.

Such trompe l'oeil realism played a part in his popularity.

Not compassion itself, mind you, just the trompe l'oeil agenda.

He had a sense of theater and delighted in trompe l'oeil effects.

"Talk to Her" begins as a trompe l'oeil theater piece.

A traveling artist painted the trompe l'oeil details in 1855.

The dish also depends on an element of trompe l'oeil.

The screen is a trompe l'oeil take on what one might see if the banner were not there.

Above our table, on the ceiling, was a trompe l'oeil painting of the sky.

She also pulls off a mild trompe l'oeil in a few paintings.

The painting of trompe l'oeil, however, has a much longer history than the structural variety.

He has also painted trompe l'oeil images for private houses and public buildings.

In fact, once they're close up, the door looks painted on, a trompe l'oeil.