Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This isn't a photograph of a fishbowl. And this one isn't either. They're actually oil paintings that are so incredibly detailed that they look real.

Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard ...

Though depicted in a still oil painting, the powerful animal gave the impression of dynamic movement. The horse’s curving neck, soulful eyes and graceful form had been captured in minute strokes of ...

Senior Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of ...