An analysis of the relationship between painters based on their work

We propose a methodology to analyze and visualize the relationships and influences between painters. We build a graph where each painter is a node and an edge between two nodes is weighted by the painters' similarity. The similarity of two painters is measured as a function of the similarity between their paintings. Although the image representation we use was initially developed for the detection of objects in natural images, we will show how our system can discover artistic periods and non-obvious connections between painters belonging to different artistic movements, showing its usefulness for the computer-assisted study of art.