On closer inspection, the machinery turns out to be a trompe-l'oeil painting and the interior a mirrored image of one built upside down behind the painting.

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Where they are behind paintings, the painting slides away behind a panel to reveal the television.

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Meanwhile, she was the catalyst behind the Twombly painting from his Rome series, which hangs on the dining room wall.

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It was usually as a blurred face at the back of a painting, behind a huge plant, or casually in a hand mirror.

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The only painting on the ground floor is Stingel's self-portrait, nestled behind some marble columns near the boat-landing entrance to the palace.

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Anthony Ittleson, the grandson of the founder of CIT Financial, moved to South Carolina in December 1996 but left a Modigliani behind in his New York City co-op, until he sold both the co-op and the painting the following spring.

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In 1987 Ji left his wife and daughter, Jean, behind in Shanghai and moved to the U.S., enrolling at a community college in Los Angeles and painting bathroom doors for minimum wage.

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