Cincinnatus Trompe l'oeil Mural
Brotherhood Building on Central Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio
 

Created by New York artist Richard Haas, Cincinnatus is painted in a style called trompe l'oeil, meaning "to deceive the eye." The mural, painted on the side of the Brotherhood Building on Central Parkway, takes on a three-dimensional quality. Some windows are real, and some are painted on the side of the building.  The central figure is a marble statue of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, the Roman statesman the city was named after. The classical setting incorporates the dome of the Pantheon, colossal Renaissance columns and a Baroque staircase. This painting was commissioned in 1983 by The Kroger Company to celebrate its centennial.