Title |
Reliable Top-Left Light Convention Starts With Early Renaissance: An Extensive Approach Comprising 10k Artworks
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2018
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00454 |
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Authors |
Claus-Christian Carbon, Alexander Pastukhov |
Abstract |
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. This study demonstrates a robust preference for painting light from the top left for Western art history, starting from Early Renaissance until 1900. |
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