painters {MASS}R Documentation

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

data(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.


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