Trompe l’oeil, a French phrase that means to “trick the eye.”
An art that fools us into thinking we’re looking at the real thing.
It’s an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the object exists in 3D.
In architecture.
A forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.
It’s a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear closer, larger, or smaller than it really is.
It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
The major problem in visual perception is that what people see is not simply a translation of the image on the retina.
This technique has uses in photography, filmmaking, and architecture.
An old example… an Italian Renaissance structure 1476–1482.
The apse of Santa Maria Presso, San Satiro in Milan, Italy.
The illusion of large space. The real space is just around one meter deep.
The church is known for its false apse.
