Some comments on the diversity of Vermeer paintings depicted on postage stamps

Oskar Maria Baksalary; George P.H. Styan

Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics (2008)

  • Volume: 28, Issue: 1, page 65-83
  • ISSN: 1509-9423

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We present some comments on the diversity of the paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) depicted on postage stamps. We have found 20 of the 36 "recognized" Vermeer paintings depicted on postage stamps issued by 29 "countries"; by country we mean here a stamp-issuing region that issues or has issued its own postage stamps. We apply Fisher's α index of biodiversity [11] to compare the diversity of Vermeer paintings depicted on postage stamps with the diversity of two other data sets [26]. We illustrate our article with images of 7 Vermeer paintings depicted on 10 postage stamps issued by 5 different countries.

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Oskar Maria Baksalary, and George P.H. Styan. "Some comments on the diversity of Vermeer paintings depicted on postage stamps." Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics 28.1 (2008): 65-83. <http://eudml.org/doc/277021>.

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