Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Paintings Measurements when open width 53"

Measurements when open width 53"

great texture juxtaposing a soft and almost dreamy rendering of the figure and an overall sense of grace and elegance

the Nandi is the scared bull of one of the most important gods

The front legs of carved block tapering form

Stephen (in Brera)

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Paintings Measurements when open width 53"A 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