A Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling, San Agustin Church, Manila Philippines
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The interior of San Agustin Church Manila has magnificent trompe l'oeil murals covering the walls and the ceiling. Trompe-l'oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for "trick the eye", from tromper - to deceive and l'oeil - the eye.
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Hmm. Thanks for the info comment. It surely fooled me because it looked like a deep dome. Nice shot here again.
said fdguin
"The splendid trompe-l'oeil barrel vault and dome magnify the skills of two Italian decorative painters, Alberoni and Dibella, who were commissioned to paint the church's interior in 1875. With a barren, plain surface, they managed to sculpt and gave life to the ceiling with their paint brushes. Alberoni and Dibella animated every space with wonderful floral motifs, geometric patterns, classic architectural themes, coffers, and religious images. Significantly, the artists developed a language in the trompe-l'oeil vaulting that synthesizes with the spatial geometry of the church. The super-imposed columns which divide each side chapel are echoed above by coffered bands that traverse across the barrel vault. Even the faux coffers are organized along the length of the ceiling to suggest depth, movement, balance, and proportion to the nave below. At the crossing, the concentric trompe-l'oeil of the shallow dome is curiously crisscrossed by fluted ribs that rise from each pier and merge at the apex."~~~Taken from http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gaspar/agustin.html
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