Reliable Top-Left Light Convention Starts With Early Renaissance: An Extensive Approach Comprising 10k Artworks
Faculty/Professorship: | General Psychology and Methodology |
Author(s): | Carbon, Claus-Christian ![]() ![]() |
Title of the Journal: | Frontiers in psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Publisher Information: | Lausanne : Frontiers Research Foundation |
Year of publication: | 2018 |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 454 |
Pages: | 1-7 |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |
Language(s): | English |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00454 |
Abstract: | This study demonstrates a robust preference for painting light from the top left for Western art history, starting from Early Renaissance until 1900. |
GND Keywords: | Westliche Welt; Gemälde; Lichtquelle; Geschichte |
Keywords: | empirical aesthetics, light source, renaissance, artworks, art history, laterality, art and science |
RVK Classification: | LH 61342 |
Type: | Article |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/54111 |
Release Date: | 27. May 2022 |

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