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The Experts (1837) by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. The monkeys are inspecting a fictional painting.
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The Experts (1837) by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. The monkeys are inspecting a fictional painting.
Reverse Side Of a Painting (1670) by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts. Is the verso of a fictional painting?
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Reverse Side Of a Painting (1670) by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts. Is the verso of a fictional painting?

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A fictional painting or an imaginary painting is a painting which exists in a fictitious world. This also includes information on paintings that depict fictitious worlds.

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In literature

Nicholas Meyer's 1993 novel The Canary Trainer describes a fictional painting by the famous Impressionist Degas, which happens to show Sherlock Holmes.

In Interpretazioni veneziane, Michelangelo Muraro and David Rosand state that:

Certainly the imagery that Aretino describes at the beginning of the Passion carries conviction. ... has stimulated commentators to suggest that Aretino is describing an imaginary painting by Titian or Tintoretto. ...

In painting

In film

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