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Also known as trompe l'oeil, trompe-l' oeil

upright=1.3|thumb|Ceiling of the Treasure Room of the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara |Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, [[Italy, painted in 1503–1506]]

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  • History in painting
  • Perspective
  • Quadratura
  • In other art forms
  • Artists
  • Paintings
  • Murals
  • Sculptures
  • Architecture
  • Use in films
  • See also
  • Notes
  • External links

upright=1.3|thumb|Ceiling of the Treasure Room of the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara |Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, [[Italy, painted in 1503–1506]] ; ) is an artistic technique that creates a highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. , which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture, and Op art a modern style mostly dealing with geometric patterns.

==History in painting== thumb|Still life, Pompeii, c. AD 70

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