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illusionistically

Definitions

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  • adverb In an illusionistic manner.

Etymologies

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illusionistic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Here we find the image of a lectern, set on the bench, that displays a legible manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid,24 illusionistically opened to the passage describing the death of Pallas:

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Replete with frescoes of illusionistically rendered civic and garden architecture, the cubiculum offered a theater of locations for contemplation.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • A chandelier hangs from the vertex of the vault defining the depth of this unusual, illusionistically painted space.

    Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

  • This approach to game design bears most in common with Renaissance artists' attempts to precisely model reality through painting, to much the same ends: an illusionistically convincing work which might 'trick' the viewer into mistaking the frame of the painting or the monitor for a window into an alternate viewpoint on our own reality.

    On Invisibility Steve gaynor 2008

  • This approach to game design bears most in common with Renaissance artists' attempts to precisely model reality through painting, to much the same ends: an illusionistically convincing work which might 'trick' the viewer into mistaking the frame of the painting or the monitor for a window into an alternate viewpoint on our own reality.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Steve gaynor 2008

  • At the bottom of the picture an illusionistically painted running tap implies an unseen bathtub, which in turn suggests that the artist is lying in his bath looking at and thinking about the things on the wall in front of him.

    Lovable in Parts Dorment, Richard 2008

  • But rather than portraying its effects illusionistically through paint, he uses light and colour as materials in their own right, in a way that has much in common with the creators of the great medieval stained glass windows.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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