Getty Research Institute @matthewdlincoln July 13, 2016 DH2016 - Kraków Measuring Genre Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting and Printmaking
• Around 4,300 described and attributed paintings • One subject keyword per entry (assigned by Montias) The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories (@ Frick Collection)
in both public and private collections • Around 47,000 attributed paintings made between 1500-1700 • 5-12 Keyword tags per object (e.g. “vrou”, “zittend”, “meid”) • Used k-means clustering to sort objects into single categories based on keyword tags Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisches Documentatie
around 35,000 Dutch and Flemish prints, 1500-1700 • Tagged with 1-5 hierarchical ICONCLASS codes • e.g. 71C: • 7 (Bible) • 71 (Old Testament) • 71C (Story of Isaac) … • Used k-means clustering to sort objects in to single subject categories based on shared 2nd-level ICONCLASS topics
a moving window, calculate the mean diversity value for artists born within that window • Bootstrap random samples to derive confidence intervals @matthewdlincoln