A new show at London’s National Gallery is measuring the eye movements of viewers to see how we see. “The results so far are not stunning. When people look at Albert Cuyp’s The Maas at Dordrecht in a Storm (1645-50), a painting of sail boats being thrown about on a tempestuous sea off the Dutch shore, they look first and longest at the boats. When they contemplate Paul Delaroche’s sentimental 19th-century history painting The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833), their eyes tend to be drawn to the central white-clad figure of the kneeling woman about to have her head cut off.” – The Guardian