Friday, February 25, 2011

Not What it Seems


Study from the Palace of the Duke of Urbino, 1476, now house in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Commissioned by Frederico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino for a palace in Gubbio near Perugia, Italy, but now part of the collection of The Met. This room is an example of the trompe l'oeil, or "fool the eye" technique. Small pieces of wood are inlaid in patterns to resemble actual objects.

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