Many of you have expressed an interest in the way the art-form of trompe
l’oeil tricks the brain into perceiving 3D from a flat surface. Always alert to
examples of trompe l’oeil, I was interested to learn (on a recent trip to Italy)
that this type of art goes back a very long way. Today, the earliest murals of trompe
l'oeil art that exist can be found in the ruins of Pompeii and Eurculaneum and
have been dated back to the first century A.D. If you’re interested in seeing
some of these trompe l’oeil murals, here are a couple of websites:
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