Alessandra Gardin
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The Exibit "Art and illusions" will be on until the 24th of January 2010 in the Strozzi Palace in Florence. It shows items from ancient Greco-Roman mosaics and frescoes to European masterpieces of the 1300s to today, two hundred works from Italian and international museums and private collections tell the intriguing and spectacular history of trompe-l’oeil.
The theme of deception, is shown not only in painting, but also in sculpture, intarsia, scagliola, pietre dure, porcelain, etc. Examples exhibited include faux armoirs, half-open, with books inside, wood intarsia of small Renaissance studios, scagliola tabletops and stones portraying seemingly prehensile objects, soup tureens and table furnishings in the shape of vegetables, anatomical and botanical wax models.
The exhibit also dedicates a significant amount of space to wall decorations and interiors (detached frescoes from Ancient Rome, where the theme of deception gave life to a school) and to Flemish artists and their innovations in the trompe-l’oeil genre.
Open to public daily from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm - on thursday from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm