L’eloquente silenzio della comunicazione scritta. I trompe-l’oeil della Fototeca Zeri,

The examination of the collection of over two hundred images of trompe-l’œil preserved in the Fototeca Zeri of the University of Bologna highlights a significant presence of manuscripts and printed texts among the objects depicted in the paintings. Between these “painted deceptions” we find musical scores, ephemera, playing cards, devotional prints, invitations, posters and other bureaucratic materials, but also engravings, printed maps, geometric tables and so on. From the study of the core of the “displayed scripts” (as Armando Petrucci and Antonio Castillo Gómez define them) new considerations come to light regarding their status, their use and the practices of their diffusion and consumption in the modern age.