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.
The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:
"A": Renaissance;
"B": Mannerist;
"C": Seicento;
"D": Venetian;
"E": Lombard;
"F": Sixteenth Century;
"G": Seventeenth Century;
"H": French.
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