The Painter's Data of de Piles

Description

The subjective assessment, on a 0 to 20 integer scale, of 54 classical painters. The painters were assessed on four characteristics: composition, drawing, colour and expression. The data is due to the Eighteenth century art critic, de Piles.

Usage

painters

Format

The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:

Composition

Composition score.

Drawing

Drawing score.

Colour

Colour score.

Expression

Expression score.

School

The school to which a painter belongs, as indicated by a factor level code as follows: "A": Renaissance; "B": Mannerist; "C": Seicento; "D": Venetian; "E": Lombard; "F": Sixteenth Century; "G": Seventeenth Century; "H": French.

Source

A. J. Weekes (1986) A Genstat Primer. Edward Arnold.

M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972) The statistical analysis of aesthetic judgement: an exploration. Applied Statistics 21, 324–333.

I. T. Jolliffe (1986) Principal Component Analysis. Springer.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.