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.

Value

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.

CATEGORY

Multivariate Analysis: Discriminant Analysis.

Source

Weekes: A Genstat Primer.


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