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45-550: The chateau was built by the property developer Emad Khashoggi 's property development company COGEMAD using traditional craftsmanship techniques and materials. Located between Versailles and Marly-le-Roi on a 23-hectare (57-acre) walled site, the property is surrounded by moats and has a constructed surface area of 7,000 m (75,000 sq ft), 5,000 m (54,000 sq ft) of which are living space. The property pays various tributes to Louis XIV of France , France's Sun King and stands on land which once formed part of

90-520: A chantourné painting showing an easel holding a painting. Chantourné literally means 'cutout' and refers to a trompe-l'œil representation designed to stand away from a wall. The Dutch painter Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten was a master of the trompe-l'œil and theorized on the role of art as the lifelike imitation of nature in his 1678 book, the Introduction to the Academy of Painting, or

135-424: A board, or a person might appear to be climbing out of the painting altogether—all in reference to the contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius . Perspective theories in the 17th century allowed a more fully integrated approach to architectural illusion, which when used by painters to "open up" the space of a wall or ceiling is known as quadratura . Examples include Pietro da Cortona 's Allegory of Divine Providence in

180-452: A company that develops haute-couture estates and interiors. In the early 2000s, after several successful property developments in France and overseas, in particular the renovation of Château du Verduron and Palais Rose du Vésinet , he and his company set their sights on a new project, homage to the 17th century architecture and a true international showcase of the finest French craftsmanship:

225-613: A deck of playing cards might appear to be sitting on the table. A particularly impressive example can be seen at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire , where one of the internal doors appears to have a violin and bow suspended from it, in a trompe-l'œil painted around 1723 by Jan van der Vaart . Another example can be found in the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College , Greenwich, London. This Wren building

270-497: A genuine monumental bronze and enamel clock identical to the one on the façade of the Château de Versailles . Several ceilings in the reception halls and master suites depict themes dear to Louis XIV , and which appear at Versailles . The painted ceiling of the cupola in the main drawing room was influenced by a never-executed Allégoire de l’Aurore conceived by Charles Le Brun for the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte . Works include

315-490: A large farm. Here, a cavalry regiment and several military companies would sometimes set up camp in what was then called "The camp farm" until 1863, when Dr Duborgia, mayor of Bougival , purchased and expanded the property. In 1888, Charles-Emile Clerc, the new owner following the death of Duborgia, undertook the demolition of the initial buildings which, over the years, had only undergone a few scarcely noticeable changes. Having acquired several plots of land, Charles-Emile Clerc

360-576: A perfect architectural trompe-l'œil is the illusionistic dome in the Jesuit church, Vienna, by Andrea Pozzo , which is only slightly curved, but gives the impression of true architecture. Trompe-l'œil paintings became very popular in Flemish and later in Dutch painting in the 17th century arising from the development of still life painting. The Flemish painter Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts created

405-563: A real wall. Then he runs towards what appears to be a hallway, but when he runs up this as well we realize that it is a large trompe-l'œil mural. More recently, Roy Andersson has made use of similar techniques in his feature films. Matte painting is a variant of trompe-l'œil , and is used in film production with elements of a scene are painted on glass panels mounted in front of the camera. Elsa Schiaparelli frequently made use of trompe-l'œil in her designs, most famously perhaps in her Bowknot Sweater , which some consider to be

450-767: A renaissance since around 1980. Significant artists in this field are the German muralist Rainer Maria Latzke , who invented, in the 1990s, a new method of producing illusion paintings, frescography , and the English artist Graham Rust . OK Go 's music video for " The Writing's on the Wall " uses a number of trompe-l'œil illusions alongside other optical illusions, captured through a one-shot take. Trompe-l'œil illusions have been used as gameplay mechanics in video games such as The Witness and Superliminal . Japanese filmmaker and animator Isao Takahata regarded achieving

495-519: A sense of trompe-l'œil to be important for his work, stating that an animated world should feel as if it "existed right there" so that "people believe in a fantasy world and characters that no one has seen in reality." Tourist attractions employing large-scale illusory art allowing visitors to photograph themselves in fantastic scenes have opened in several Asian countries, such as the Trickeye Museum and Hong Kong 3D Museum . Recently

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540-566: A small farmhouse with goats, a vegetable garden, stables and even an English-style garden on the lower level, all in keeping with the natural outlines of the property where the château is located. Emad Khashoggi Emad Khashoggi ( Arabic : عماد خاشقجي , born 25 March 1968) is a Saudi businessman and the head of COGEMAD. He initiated the Château Louis XIV development project in Louveciennes , France. Emad Khashoggi

585-444: A succession of owners, until the site's purchase and rebuilding by Khashoggi. The Saudi-born French property developer Emad Khashoggi demolished the building and constructed a new house, built with respect to 17th-century craft traditions. Khashoggi employed craftsmen with traditional skills. He explained that he wanted to "give rise to a 'new structure,' for which one is able to create sustainable projects that will make their mark in

630-449: A window, door, or hallway, intended to suggest a larger room. A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius , asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back

675-454: Is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe-l'œil , which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture. The phrase, which can also be spelled without the hyphen and ligature in English as trompe l'oeil , originates with

720-465: Is consistent with the standards of the 17th century, and its parks and gardens are no exception. In line with André Le Nôtre 's theories for the Château de Versailles and the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte , the grounds pay tribute to the French-style gardens. It boasts flower beds and embroidered box hedges, plays on perspective, topiary yew trees clipped into small pyramids, a tree-lined labyrinth,

765-523: The Château Louis XIV . In 2009, a plot of wooded land between Versailles and Marly-le-Roi was purchased and precipitated the project that reached completion three years following the start of the building works. The design and development of the Château Louis XIV was the subject of a book published by the renowned French art magazine Connaissance des Arts . In addition to the Château Louis XIV, Emad Khashoggi's past developments include

810-627: The Palazzo Barberini and Andrea Pozzo 's Apotheosis of St Ignatius on the ceiling of the Roman church of Sant'Ignazio in Campo Marzio . The Mannerist and Baroque style interiors of Jesuit churches in the 16th and 17th centuries often included such trompe-l'œil ceiling paintings, which optically "open" the ceiling or dome to the heavens with a depiction of Jesus', Mary 's, or a saint's ascension or assumption. An example of

855-568: The Palais Vénitien in Cannes (decor of French movie Möbius with actor Jean Dujardin ) and the renovation of Pierre Balmain 's former apartment in the prestigious Jean Walter building complex in Paris. Trompe-l%27%C5%93il Trompe-l'œil ( French for 'deceive the eye'; / t r ɒ m p ˈ l ɔɪ / tromp- LOY ; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] )

900-704: The Versailles estate. Khashoggi had previously restored the Palais Rose in Le Vésinet and the Château du Verduron in Marly-le-Roi . The Chateau Louis XIV was built on the site of the former Chateau du Camp in Louveciennes, with the aim of building a modern house, with hi-tech controls incorporated within a 17th-century aspect, layout, and materials. The château incorporates elements inspired by

945-486: The Vicomte Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé  [ fr ] and his wife in 1805. The Vicomte Charles-Louis Terray de Morel-Vindé, counselor at the royal court in Paris, inherited the property following the death of his grandfather in 1842, and sold it in 1848 to Jean-Pierre Blondi and Adélaïde Halguin, who had the first house and outbuildings built on the property. The camp property became

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990-550: The Virgin in the Parma Cathedral . Similarly, Vittorio Carpaccio (1460–1525) and Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440 – before 1516) added small trompe-l'œil features to their paintings, playfully exploring the boundary between image and reality. For example, a painted fly might appear to be sitting on the painting's frame, or a curtain might appear to partly conceal the painting, a piece of paper might appear to be attached to

1035-514: The Visible World ( Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst: anders de zichtbaere werelt , Rotterdam, 1678). A fanciful form of architectural trompe-l'œil , quodlibet , features realistically rendered paintings of such items as paper knives, playing cards, ribbons, and scissors, apparently accidentally left lying around. Trompe-l'œil can also be found painted on tables and other items of furniture, on which, for example,

1080-550: The artist Louis-Léopold Boilly , who used it as the title of a painting he exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1800. Although the term gained currency only in the early 19th century, the illusionistic technique associated with trompe-l'œil dates much further back. It was (and is) often employed in murals . Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii . A typical trompe-l'œil mural might depict

1125-416: The beginning of the 1980s when German artist Rainer Maria Latzke began to combine classical fresco art with contemporary content, trompe-l'œil became increasingly popular for interior murals. The Spanish painter Salvador Dalí utilized the technique for a number of his paintings. Trompe-l'œil , in the form of " forced perspective ", has long been used in stage-theater set design , so as to create

1170-628: The building's sides features the Chicago Board of Trade Building , intended as a reflection of the building located two miles south. Several contemporary artists use chalk on pavement or sidewalk to create trompe-l'œil works, a technique called street painting or "pavement art". These creations last only until washed away, and therefore must be photographed to be preserved. Practitioners of this form include Julian Beever , Edgar Mueller , Leon Keer , and Kurt Wenner . The Palazzo Salis of Tirano , Italy , has over centuries and throughout

1215-514: The château Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Palace of Versailles . In 2015, the chateau was purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman for US$ 301 million, a world record for a residential property. In the late 17th century, the property where the current Château Louis XIV was built consisted of several plots of land, chestnut groves and woodland. In the early 18th century, the royal regiment

1260-471: The creation of 17th-century lamps and decorative hardware inspired by numerous archives from the History of France , notably from the 17th century under the reign of Louis XIV . Works include numerous handmade curved banisters and balustrades reproduced from17th-century spirals and motifs. These assemblages are always created using tenons, mortises or pegs, without the slightest trace of welding, according to

1305-788: The curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were included in Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner. A fascination with perspective drawing arose during the Renaissance . But Giotto had begun using perspective at the end of the 13th century with the cycle of Assisi in Saint Francis stories. Many Italian painters of the late Quattrocento , such as Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) and Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings , generally in fresco , that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening to create

1350-507: The fake tunnel. This is usually followed by the coyote's foolishly trying to run through the tunnel after the road runner, only to smash into the hard rock-face. This sight gag was employed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit . In Chicago 's Near North Side , Richard Haas used a 16-story 1929 apartment hotel converted into a 1981 apartment building for trompe-l'œil murals in homage to Chicago school architecture . One of

1395-422: The finest French tradition. A traditional frame was constructed for the dome, which was assembled the old-fashioned way using a system of tenons and mortises. In keeping with age-old techniques, the roofers hand-crafted the slate roof from Angers . The roof also boasts fire pots sculpted in stone and gilded metal spikes on the roof's ridge beam. The Château Louis XIV, nestled in an authentic lush green setting,

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1440-462: The first use of trompe-l'œil in fashion. The Tears Dress , which she did in collaboration with Salvador Dalí , features both appliqué tears on the veil and trompe-l'œil tears on the dress itself. Fictional trompe-l'œil appears in many Looney Tunes , such as the Road Runner cartoons, where, for example, Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel on a rock wall, and Road Runner then races through

1485-533: The following key works: 860 m (30,000 cu ft) of massive natural stone divided as follows: They were used to make balusters , sculpted tables, fire pots and capitals for sculpted pilasters . On display in the château's Garden à la française is a stone-sculpted reproduction of the Chariot of Apollo from the fountain in Versailles . The smaller-scale copy of this sculpted group, designed for

1530-461: The future as well as in the heritage of a region, a country." For the construction of the Château Louis XIV his company, Cogemad, employed an average of 120 workers every day, and included artisans such as: sculptors, mosaic artisans, painters, gilders, iron craftsmen, cabinetmakers, marble masons, landscapers, fibrous plasterers, clockmakers, bronze casting artisans, roofers, carpenters and coppersmiths. The property includes an underwater room built into

1575-655: The illusion of a much deeper space than the existing stage. A famous early example is the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza , with Vincenzo Scamozzi 's seven forced-perspective "streets" (1585), which appear to recede into the distance. Trompe-l'œil is employed in Donald O'Connor 's famous "Running up the wall" scene in the film Singin' in the Rain (1952). During the finale of his "Make 'em Laugh" number he first runs up

1620-585: The impression of greater space for the viewer below. This type of trompe-l'œil illusionism as specifically applied to ceiling paintings is known as di sotto in sù , meaning "from below, upward" in Italian. The elements above the viewer are rendered as if viewed from true vanishing point perspective. Well-known examples are the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and Antonio da Correggio 's (1489–1534) Assumption of

1665-530: The interior. One of the centerpieces is found on the monumental entrance door sculpted entirely by hand in oak in high relief, and projects out by 17 cm (6.7 in). It depicts the Sun God on horse-back as a Roman Emperor crowned by Victory. This work was inspired by a model from the War Room at the Château de Versailles . For the façade of the château, Emad Khashoggi commissioned clock-makers to create

1710-559: The king's gardens by the artist Jean-Baptiste Tuby , retained the proportions and details of the original. It was then gilded in gold-leaf. The marble was crafted in various styles: delicate marquetry for the floors, mosaics for the garden level, book matched in the bathrooms, sculpted for the monumental statue of Louis XIV and molded for the Grand Siècle-style fireplaces. List of marbles used and their place of origin: Many 17th-century decorations sculpted in wood embellish

1755-624: The moats – the only one of its kind in Europe. The ceiling of the drawing room has a trompe-l'œil painting inspired by a fresco created by Charles Le Brun for the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte , which took master painters several months to create. This, in addition to the fountain in the gardens, is one of the centerpieces of the château. Numerous companies certified as Living Heritage Artisans and Companies took part in this project, which enabled them to train new craftsmen. The construction project brought together several age-old trades, which produced

1800-483: The palace used trompe-l'œil in place of more expensive real masonry, doors, staircases, balconies, and draperies to create an illusion of sumptuousness and opulence. Trompe-l'œil in the form of illusion architecture and Lüftlmalerei is common on façades in the Alpine region. Trompe-l'œil, in the form of "illusion painting", is also used in contemporary interior design, where illusionary wall paintings experienced

1845-467: The security of the Château de Marly , set up their camp on the property. Also known as the "Royal Regiment Camp" or the "Marly Camp," the camp disappeared in the mid 18th century, and the Château de Marly suffered in the French Revolution . In 1797, during a settlement, the camp and land that were part of the property were sold to Françoise-Suzanne Guyhon Monthaut who, in turn, sold them to

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1890-409: Was able to expand the property, which he transformed into a residential domain with a large house surrounded by extensive wooded grounds. The property remained in the family for over a century. During this time, it underwent a few modifications such as the addition of a stable, a caretaker's house and a number of paths, before eventually being sold to a French couple in 1991. This would then give way to

1935-630: Was born in Lebanon 's capital Beirut . His father, Adil Khashoggi, has headed up several property developments in Saudi Arabia . His grandfather, Muhammad Khashoggi was of Turkish origin from Kayseri and the personal physician to King Abdulaziz Al Saud . Emad Khashoggi is also the nephew of businessman Adnan Khashoggi . His surname, Khashoggi, means "spoon maker" ( Kaşıkçı ) in the Turkish language . In 1989, Emad Khashoggi founded COGEMAD,

1980-480: Was in charge of participating in a major excavation project in Marly-le-Roi . They thus decided to set up camp in an existing clearing on these very plots of land. During this period, Louis XIV decided to build a palace in Marly-le-Roi nestled in a lush green setting; a place where he would regularly go to find the peace and quiet that he lacked in Versailles . Later, the Swiss Guards , assigned to ensure

2025-552: Was painted by Sir James Thornhill , the first British born painter to be knighted and is a classic example of the Baroque style popular in the early 18th century. The American 19th-century still-life painter William Harnett specialized in trompe-l'œil . In the 20th century, from the 1960s on, the American Richard Haas and many others painted large trompe-l'œil murals on the sides of city buildings. From

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