One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...

Pointing gestures in Old Master paintings "significantly" influence how viewers look at them, suggests a new study. People looking at the works of art are "drawn" to the faces of the pointing ...

Pointing at an object… in one sense you might say that this simple gesture doesn’t just replace a word, but that it is a word – perhaps the first word. We know that it and other such gestures play a ...

In this painting, the figure seated on the right points at the card-player while laughing, a gesture that underscores his mockery of the young man’s naïveté. The more experienced player, together with ...