Reliable Top-Left Light Convention Starts With Early Renaissance: An Extensive Approach Comprising 10k Artworks

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...

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Main Authors: Claus-Christian Carbon, Alexander Pastukhov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00454/full