Iconography is the domain of understanding the meaning of historical visual artworks. A formalization of iconographic knowledge can provide a basis for a semi-automatic description of what the content shown on a historical image means without the need for a domain expert. Semantic Web standards can be applied for an iconographic knowledge representation using multiple levels of expressiveness t...

The similarity in fractal dimensions of paint “blobs” in samples of gestural expressionist art implies that these pigment structures are statistically indistinguishable from one another. This result suggests that such dimensions cannot be used as a “fingerprint” for identifying the work of a single artist. To overcome this limitation, the multifractal spectrum is adopted as an alternative tool ...