Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Recently Added 23 cm X 20

23 cm X 20

to each side are 'grotesques' carved as the head of monks

Each oval plaque is very finely painted as a young German bride in historical/traditional wedding costume

and for several other types and textures of glass

a Buddhist/Hindu spiritual retreat for yoga & meditation

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Recently Added 23 cm X 20A fine pair of antique Italian oil on panel paintings Nature Morte of two pairs of gamebirds, in the Trompe l'oeil style, by Michelangelo Meucci (1840 1909), signed & dated Firenze 1873. Trompe l'oeil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three dimensional space and objects on a two dimensional surface. Trompe l'il, which is most often associated with painting and it tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or