Nuevas Tecnologías y Patrimonio Cultural. Más allá de la Digitalización: El caso del Hispanic Baroque Project
En los últimos años las nuevas tecnologías han demostrado su utilidad y alto valor en el campo de la preservación y difusión del patrimonio cultural, poniendo a disposición de los expertos en el área estándares y herramientas cada vez más depuradas y...
Decline of Perceived Beauty: Facial Representations between the 18th and 20th Century in Western Art
This study focuses on the question of beauty standards defined by scientific methodology in terms of face symmetry and averageness. This definition correlates with art history and the human faces depicted in a large set of artworks. Recent research in evolutionary...
A Quantitative Approach to Beauty. Perceived Attractiveness of Human Faces in World Painting
Has human beauty always been perceived in the same manner? We used a set of 120,000 paintings from different periods to analyze human faces between the 13th and the 20th centuries in order to establish whether there has been a single canon of beauty (that would...