Review of : 'Painting by Numbers. Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art' by Diana Greenwald

Art history may be at a turning point in the adoption of a quantitative approach typical of social sciences, and this book is a brilliant manifesto for this. It will be a fascinating reading for economic historians and cultural economists, and will hopefully foster interdisciplinary research, which appears quite promising for a field as art history that is traditionally focused on qualitative analysis of canonical art rather than empirical analysis of representative samples of artistic production