The Painter's Data of de Piles
SUMMARY
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.DATA DESCRIPTION
The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:
item{Composition}{
Composition score
}
item{Drawing}{
Drawing score
}
item{Colour}{
Colour score
}
item{Expression}{
Expression score
}
item{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
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