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Title

Applied mathematics: The statistics of style.

Authors

Olshausen, Bruno A.; DeWeese, Michael R.

Abstract

The article offers information on the use of statistical methods to distinguish between the painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and those of his imitators. It mentions that art historians are skilled to identify the authentic artworks by visual inspection but scientists have been trying to develop mathematical ways of doing so. Image statisticians have formed several specific mathematical models and applied them to paintings by several artists including Jackson Pollock and Pieter Bruegel the Elder to characterize the statistical structure of paintings. Further, it questions the consistency of such methods with paintings by other artists and different styles of an artist.

Subjects

PAINTING; BRUEGEL, Pieter, ca. 1525-1569; MATHEMATICAL statistics; MATHEMATICAL models; PAINTERS; ART historians; POLLOCK, Jackson, 1912-1956; STATISTICIANS; IMAGE converters

Publication

Nature, 2010, Vol 463, Issue 7284, p1027

ISSN

0028-0836

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1038/4631027a

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