Another very famous painting by Thomas Eakins is ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’. This too looks very similar to a photograph, ...

And this one isn't either. They're actually oil paintings that are so incredibly detailed that they look real. Hyper-realism is a relatively new art form dating back to the early '70s. The idea is ...

The Birth of Venus, a painting by the Italian artist Botticelli, depicts the goddess Venus at the shore after her birth.