ABSTRACT

Interpersonal communication depends to a large extent on the human face, with its many sensory organs, easily recognizable features and expression capacities. This is clearly evidenced by the abundance of artworks spanning several millennia and from all over the world, which represent the human face. By employing a novel approach, we focus on a particular type of face representation: the frontal face. Our analysis will primarily focus on the construction of such representations. Knowledge obtained from the cognitive sciences is applied to frontal face representations from Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East. Against this backdrop, we will discuss how the construction of faces and implementation of frontality differs or matches in both two- and three-dimensional images. Finally, we touch upon what impact frontal faces have on their potential audience and when and why frontality in faces was expressed in images.

摘要

人际交往很大程度上取决于人脸，它具有许多感觉器官，易于识别的特征和表达能力。跨越几千年，来自世界各地的代表人脸的大量艺术品可以清楚地证明这一点。通过采用一种新颖的方法，我们专注于一种特定类型的脸部表示：正面脸部。我们的分析将主要集中在这种表示的构建上。从认知科学获得的知识应用于来自古埃及和远东近代的正面人脸表征。在此背景下，我们将讨论在二维图像和三维图像中人脸的构造和正面性的实现方式是如何不同或匹配的。最后，