Some fifty years later the art theorist Benedetto Varchi would add the element of as-if and make-belief or illusion to the mix: the art of painting creates an illusion of reality, and hides through dissimulation the artistic effort to create such illusions (…) - p. 6 Caroline van Eck, Every style in art is a camouflage through which, by our own reconstruction , we think we see “real nature”: an ethological perspective on style.
