Trompe-l'œil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still Life

In 1668, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts painted an impressive painting, calling it "Trompe l'oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still Life". It shows as a background a wooden wall with a canvas on a shelf, on which are also the utensils of the painter. The canvas shows a still life with symbols of death and resurrection on a marble ledge, a so-called vanitas still life. The painting is part of a series of paintings in which the objects are particularly three-dimensional. The genre is called Trompe l'oeil (in English: deception of the eye) and is typical of the Baroque. The genre was also popular in the rest of Europe.