Man at the Window by Samuel van Hoogstraten – my daily art display

My Daily Art Display today enters the world of trompe l’oeil.  The term is French and literally means “trick of the eye”.  It is a kind of artistic illusionism which gives the appearance of three-dimensional realism.  This story of trompe l’oeil originated in ancient Greece.  Pliny the Elder records in his Natural Histories the famous…

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Man at the window' Giclee Print - Samuel van Hoogstraten

Old Man at the Window by Samuel van Hoogstraten via DailyArt

Maaike Dirkx Rembrandt's Room

Springville Museum of Art - Portrait of a Bearded Man

Man at a Window - Samuel van Hoogstraten as art print or hand

Man at a Window Painting by Samuel van Hoogstraten - Fine Art America

Man at a Window - Samuel van Hoogstraten as art print or hand

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Man at a Window - Samuel van Hoogstraten as art print or hand

Man at a Window, 1653 by Samuel van Hoogstraten

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Project: Drawing and painting interiors