Take a look at these 30 surprisingly realistic paintings

These 30 paintings looks like actual photographs! - Sometimes it seems like with the invention of photography, painters have lost their place in the world. However, with these incredibly realistic paintings, Italian painter, Emanuele Dascanio shows that there is nothing that compares to a beautifully executed painting. Paying particular attention to the way the light hits his subjects, he creates incredible pieces which will take your breath away. Take a look at these 30 beautifully realistic paintings that will leave you in awe.

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Bottle - It's amazing how he managed to perfectly copy the image of this glass and the raspberry inside.

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Fruit - This peach has been painted with all the most intricate details, from the skin to the stone.

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Cup - Here he's painted a broken glass. The shadows serve to make the scene even more realistic.

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Watermelon - And here is an incredibly detailed watermelon. The artist pays particular attention to the way the light hits the objects.

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Portraits - He also does fantastic portraits of people too. This woman's body, clothes and hair look just like a photograph.

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Portraits - The most distinctive part of this painting is how the woman's hair is spread out around her.

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Portraits - One of the most impressive works by the Italian painter. The level of detail is just incredible, and it would be difficult to find any flaws in this beautiful piece.

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Portraits - Take a look at the features of this girl, they look unbelievably lifelike. The hyper-realistic painter is able to create an amazing effect.

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Portraits - Just like in this one, where the clothes, hair and face of the woman are all perfectly illustrated.

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Grapes - These grapes are so perfectly painted that you can see the light shining through them from the other side.

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Pomegranate - Again paying extra attention to the way the light hits the subject, this painting of a pomegranate looks almost good enough to eat.

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Broccoli - And here each individual head of broccoli is depicted in painstaking detail.

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Water - In this painting, the detail looks so realistic it's almost even better than a photograph.

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Sweets - The painter also picks a perfect selection of colors, as you can see in the beautiful arrangement of sweets in this picture.

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Sweets - From a closer angle you can even see the grains of sugar on the candy.

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Eggs - In paintings like these, he shows that using paint can produce an effect even more incredible than a photograph, which probably wouldn't be able to capture the light reflecting off of the egg yolk in the same way.

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Capsicum - Again, in this painting he pays particular attention to the way the light bounces off the surface of the capsicum.

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Expressions - By focusing just on the eyes, the artist captures the intensity of the model's gaze.

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Coconut - The inside of this coconut looks even more detailed than a real one might do.

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Shell - Here he pays a lot of attention to the different colors and tones of the shell.

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Strawberry - Even in black and white, this strawberry is still incredibly detailed. So realistic it looks like you could pick it up off the page and eat it.

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Two faces - Two beautiful girls are the subjects of this painting. Here it's the intricacies of the girl's hair, noses eyes and mouth that are truly impressive.

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Watermelon - In this one the watermelon looks almost visceral, the lighting and the color making it look different to any perspective of the fruit you might have seen before.

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Grapes - In this one it's the the individual droplets of water running off the grapes that make the painting so impressive.

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Pearl - A pearl is painted inside its shell, with the hyper realistic style of painting meaning that all of the colors of the inside of the shell are perfectly captured.

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Pomegranates - The artist again returns to the pomegranates, this time painted from a different perspective.

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Portraits - Here a woman seems to be looking directly at the artist through a mirror. Each individual strand of hair is perfectly painted by the Italian artist.

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Fruits - Another perfectly realistic still life of a number of fruits.

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Old man - This time the artist chooses an old man as his subject, and you can see why, with his long beard and weathered features.

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Lemon - Here each individual segment of the lemon, each pip and the rind are all depicted with breathtaking detail.

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