Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The current issue of Nature (vol 392, 30.April 98, pp877) includes an article (scientific correspondence) about painters centering one eye in portraits (presented examples are from Rogier van der Weyden (1640), Sandro Botticelli (1480), Leonardo da Vinci (1505), Titian (1512), Peter Paul Rubens (1622) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1659)). This article may interest those who took part in the 'what makes a good photograph'-discussion which took place some weeks ago. It suggests (in opposition to irrational 'all is relative'-statements) hidden principles of aesthetic judgements operating generally and possibly beyond portraiture. For eye-centering the author observes an unbiased accuracy of +/- 5% over six centuries. Christian