id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_uiwrwdvasvbh7nwdbk5r5zk264 Steve DiPaola Rembrandt's Textural Agency: A Shared Perspective in Visual Art and Science 2010 14 .pdf application/pdf 6084 329 60 that artists in the late 'early modern' period developed the technique of textural agency — coerce the viewer's gaze through a painting, thereby influencing the observer's fixation points and eye the portrait shown in Figure 1, the increased textural and color detail rendered in the sitter's left eye and Directing the viewer's gaze to selected regions in a portrait is one of the tools a modern artist has for Testing the textural agency hypothesis in modern viewers of Rembrandt-like art Rembrandt-like rendering (detailed eye and neck regions on the same side of the image) at a rate artist's selection of regions of a portrait for more and less detail has a direct influence on viewing perhaps even as early as Rembrandt, guided the viewer's gaze through their selection of textural detail. 'early modern' period developed the technique of textural agency in order to guide the observer's gaze ./cache/work_uiwrwdvasvbh7nwdbk5r5zk264.pdf ./txt/work_uiwrwdvasvbh7nwdbk5r5zk264.txt