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Two churches worth a look are the Renaissance Igreja de São Bento, with its contrasting ceiling, part Moorish carved wood and part trompe l’oeil; and the Igreja de São Vicente, where Pedro I claimed to have married Inês de Castro (see page 45).
Facing an amphitheater auditorium is a fixed décor of classical Roman statuary and columns that looks far deeper than its 4 m (14 ft), a permanent stage “curtain” of trompe l’oeil depicting the ancient streets of Thebes.
Some of the most spectacular examples of the genre, which got its name in 17 th -century Holland, depict great mounds of fruit and fabric that fool the eye ( trompe l'oeil ) so completely that we can practically smell them and feel them.
Nonetheless, the initial trompe l'oeil is there.
No document links them, but shared motifs (a woman weighing gold, a trompe l'oeil curtain drawn just so) in their paintings--especially from a magic moment around 1658--suggest an intimacy akin to such famous partnerships as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, or Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.