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Nov 11, 2021 · The trompe l’œil style of street art quickly became synonymous with Lyon, which is now home to 10 building-sized optical illusions and many other murals that incorporate the technique in parts.
Oct 17, 2019 · Painted in the trompe-l’oeil style (trick the eye), “Le Mur des Canuts” is a gigantic mural depicting ordinary life in the La Croix-Rousse neighborhood of Lyon, France. Hyperrealistic in ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Sebastian Stoskopff's 17th-Century Trompe l'Oeil (Galatea) is a painting masquerading as an engraving attached to a board by red sealing wax. Gris's The Marble Console (1914) includes bits of ...
La Fresque des Lyonnais, or the Mural of Lyonnais, is a building mural covering the back and side of a bright yellow building on the Saône side of the 1st arrondissement. It is one of the most popular historical monuments for city tourists, depicting some of the many Lyonnais who made the city what it is. It consists of 24 historic and six ...
Oct 23, 2011 · Just down the road is La Bibliothèque de la Cité, the City Library, another trompe l’oeil, which sits opposite a real second-hand book market on the banks of the river. The Lyonnais mural is 8,600 square feet, the City Library 4,300 square feet, the Garnier and Canut murals much larger.
Apr 13, 2024 · This enormous mural, painted in the trompe-l’oeil style, mesmerizes viewers with its hyperrealistic imagery and intricate details, offering a captivating glimpse into the everyday life of the La Croix-Rousse neighborhood.
Nov 8, 2017 · Kaushik Patowary Nov 8, 2017 0 comments. For the last four decades a group of muralists in the French city of Lyon has been transforming the city into a massive outdoor art gallery. Huge murals painted in the trompe l’oeil style cover walls all over Lyon depicting historical events or famous people or mundane moments of everyday life.
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