Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17th century paintings.

ABSTRACT: Dutch 17th century painters were masters in depicting materials and their properties in a convincing way. Here, we studied the perception of the material signatures and key image features of different depicted fabrics, like satin and velvet. We also tested whether the perception of fabrics depicted in paintings related to local or global cues, by cropping the stimuli. In Experiment 1, roughness, warmth, softness, heaviness, hairiness, and shininess were rated for the stimuli shown either full figure or cropped. In the full figure, all attributes except shininess were rated higher for velvet, whereas shininess was rated higher for satin. This distinction was less clear in the cropped condition, and some properties were perceived significantly different between the two conditions. In Experim

SUBMITTER: Di Cicco F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8132013 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature