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| Date: | 2018 |
| Title: | Reliable Top-Left Light Convention Starts With Early Renaissance: An Extensive Approach Comprising 10k Artworks |
| Author: | Claus-Christian Carbon Alexander Pastukhov |
| Description: | Art history claims that Western art shows light from the top left, which has been repeatedly shown with narrow image sets and simplistic research methods. Here we employed a set of 10,000 pictures for which participants estimated the direction of light plus their confidence of estimation. From 1420 A.D., the onset of Early Renaissance, until 1900 A.D., we revealed a clear preference for painting light from the top left—within the same period, we observed the highest confidence in such estimations of the light source.One sentence summaryThis study demonstrates a robust preference for painting light from the top left for Western art history, starting from Early Renaissance until 1900. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/82406 |
| Other Identifier: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00454 https://doaj.org/article/f7d2bbc4a7a3481e9fad07a25bbbf1bd |
| AMAD ID: | 677633 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
