Admire the exhibition "Hyperreal. The Art of Trompe l’Oeil" held at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and uncover a reassessment of this unique genre through a collection of high-quality masterpieces that exemplify the themes most widely encountered in easel painting.
Don't miss the chance to observe painting images that are impossible to distinguish from reality and learn how this genre has been challenging in history. The ability to deceive the viewer by making the painted seem real through the laws of optics and perspective is a visual game of which the earliest examples are known from descriptions in Greek literary texts. Since then, trompe l’oeil has been extensively present art, particularly flourishing in periods such as Renaissance and Baroque, after which it declined following Romanticism but never entirely disappeared from the artistic repertoire.
The "Hyperreal. The Art of Trompe l’Oeil" exhibition offers a collection of the 15th to the 21st centuries. Works are presented in terms of content and settings rather than chronological order the aim is to emphasize the continuity of the genre, which is still in use nowadays.
Entrance to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (permanent collection)
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