Trompe-l'œil paintings became very popular in Flemish and Dutch painting in the 17th century arising from the development of still life painting. The Flemish painter Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts created a chantourné painting (chantourné literally means 'cutout' and refers to a trompe l'œil representation designed to stand away from a wall) showing an easel holding a painting.[2] The Dutch painter Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten was a master of the trompe-l'œil and theorized on the role of art as the lifelike imitation of nature in his book the Introduction to the Academy of Painting, or the Visible World (Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst: anders de zichtbaere werelt) (1678).