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Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

Zeuxis and Parrhasius, Pliny the Elder, Roman Painting – Coloring the Past (73)

March 31, 2017 Ancient Art Podcast 1 Comment

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain — Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris, Trompe-l’Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658, Art Institute of Chicago (1949.585)

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