Calcareous nannofossil assemblage in paintings chalk ground for provenance analysis: three original paintings compared to european source materials

Drip paintings and fractal analysis.

It has been claimed that fractal analysis can be applied to unambiguously characterize works of art such as the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock. This academic issue has become of more general interest following the recent discovery of a cache of disputed Pollock paintings. We definitively demonstrate here, by analyzing paintings by Pollock and others, that fractal criteria provide no informat...

Artist Identification for Renaissance Paintings

Current work in author identification is primarily directed towards music classification. Identification of artists by analyzing features of their work has recently gained interest. As a multiclass classification problem, potentially applicable machine learning approaches to the problem are numerous. We propose to extend present work in this area, which uses Naïve Bayes classifiers and multi-cl...

Geometric and Radiometric Analysis of Paintings

The paper reports an overview of some experiences carried out by some Italian research groups (Politecnico di Milano, University of Palermo, Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento) aimed to assess the conservation‟s state of some analysed paintings and provide useful information for further diagnostic applications. The activities were accomplished in interdisciplinary teams composed of photogrammet...

Looking Through Paintings

Order in Jackson Pollock's paintings

We report the degree of order of twenty two Jackson Pollock's paintings using Hausdorff-Besicovitch fractal dimension. Through the maximum value of each multi-fractal spectrum, the fractality of the artworks is presented as a function of the year in which they were painted. It has been reported that Pollock's paintings are fractal and it increased on his latest works. However our results show t...