Trompe-l’œil mural ~ Italian Renaissance Style

Natural colors are used as a palette to focus your eye on Ruthie Lowen’s Trompe-l’œil mural of an Italian Village set on a hillside for another of her innovate Wine Cellar murals. She uses  realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the Italian Renaissance Village actually appears in three dimensions.

Grapes vines twine around and escape from the background making the faux marble stonework look real. Using dull greens, yellows, warm ambers and faded reds, Ruthie gives the work the feeling of age.

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Ernest Hemingway Would Be at Home Shooting Billiards in Front of Ruthie Lowen’s Antique Wall-sized Map

Ernst Hemingway would be happy shooting billiards in front of Ruthie Lowen’s antique wall-sized map

Covering the entire wall, Ruthie Lowen’s vintage map has the feel of antique parchment. Copying cartographers of old, her hand painted faux finished wall takes you out of modern day and into the past when African explorers explored the globe. With the green glass and brass hanging lamps, palm leaf fronds and carved bleached wood chairs, you might be playing billiards in the deep tropics.

Setting the scene, Ruthie’s copy of a hand drawn parchment map recalls a serene time long past when women wore elegant bias cut gowns and men retired to their clubs to smoke hand rolled cigars and drink port while they entertained themselves by shooting billiards.

Stylized calligraphy, a hall mark of Ruthie’s work, details continents, directions and the Mediterranean in filigreed, crown topped lettering.

This versatile design works in both residential and commercial installations.

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