MURALS - TROMPE L’OEIL - ART RESTORATION
I am Francesco Farolfi, a florentine artist owner of Farolfi Arte. I deal with making paintings, artistic painting decoration and murals. I do also restoration of ancient paintings and frescoes. From over 30 years I work on commission for clients from all over the world, doing entirely handmade artworks
WORK IN PROGRESS
(March 2021)
Portrait of a child.
(Oil on canvas)
Fake door
(acrylic on the wall)
Classic style decoration
(tempera on the wall)
Classical paintings
Brand-new paintings and murals
Inspired to the style of
old masterspieces
Deceiving the eye with illusionistic architectures
From the origins, wall painting wants to suggest the optical illusion of an opening towards the outside, as we can see, for example, in the Pompeian frescoes. This is also achieved by inserting architectural elements, drawn giving them an illusionistic effect, called trompe l’oeil, from the French: "deception of the eye", in which the perspective takes into account the observer's point of view.
Francesco Farolfi next to his newly finished mural on the wall of a bathroom. Florence, 1995
If you want to see the video where I "tell about" some of my trompe l'oeil artworks, click the image below. The video is on my Youtube channel (duration 4 min.)
DECEPTIVE WALLS
The video
Evocative power of the Trompe l’Oeil painting
By
involving the viewer with visual trick, trompe l'oeil wall paintings
evoke with particular effectiveness the presence and the memory of
places, people or animals beloved by the client.
In the picture alongside, for example, you can see a wall painting
in which client wanted the portrait of the dog that belonged to her
when she lived abroad
Trompe L’Oeil of decorative architectural elements
Trompe L’Oeil like fun
(Francesco Farolfi - oil on wood - 2010)
Not only Trompe L’Oeil
One more kind of wall painting decoration envisage the use of stylized and geometrized natural elements, harmoniously arranged with repeated and symmetrical motifs, as in the detail below
Detail of a ceiling decoration inspired by the Art Nouveau style, to match the time of construction of the building. Francesco Farolfi, Florence 2019
EASEL PAINTINGS, PORTRAITS AND COPIES FROM ANCIENT MASTERPIECE
Francesco Farolfi
makes also commissioned oil or acrylic paintings on canvas, including portraits
of people and animals.
On request he also makes copies of old masterpieces
IMAGE GALLERY
More images in the galleries you access from the header menu
Fresco on the wall that combines elements taken from Renaissance paintings in a new original composition depicting "The Good governance"( USA 2004)
Detail of a large trompe l’oeil mural painted on the walls of a kitchen. The scene includes a alandscape and the portrait of client's cat. Florence 2012
Trompe l'oeil mural on a staircase wall. In the photo you see the wall either before and after the mural has been finished - Pisa 2015
Portrait of a dog (Golden Retriever). Painting oil on canvas 90 x95 cm. 2019
Trompe l’oeil painting on canvas glued to a ceiling, depicting faux lacunars with grotesque and fake golden rose window. See the processing phase in the following image. Osaka 2004
A phase, in the studio, of processing the canvas for the ceiling you see in the previous image
Making of a pictorial decoration on a ceiling, in the style of preexisting adjacent decorations, date back to the XIX° century, by obteining their perfect assimilation. Florence 2015