Wallpaper and Ars Aemula
Edited picture. First floor of Ars Aemula building with a wall full of optical illusions from ca. 1650. On left easel a wallpaper fragment, original address unknown, 88x51cm, ca. 1850.
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Wallpaper and the wonderwall
story by Emma Verweij.Painting Academy Ars Aemula in Leiden has a 17th-century wonder wall where nothing is as it seems. There is also a nineteenth-century deception on the easel.