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

Authors 1, 2

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  1. Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, PL 61-614 Poznań, Poland
  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 ouest, rue Sherbrooke, Montréal (Québec), Canada H3A 2K6

Abstract

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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artemetrics, Jerzy K. Baksalary (1944-2005), Dutch paintings and works of art, Fisher's α index of biodiversity, topical philately, Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

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Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics
2008/28/1
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Pages:
65-83
Main language of publication
English
Received
2007-12-14
Published
2008

DOI: 10.7151/dmps.1092

Exact and natural sciences