An innovative application of economic methods to the study of art history, demonstrating that new insights can be uncovered by using quantitative and qualitative methods together, which sheds light on longstanding disciplinary inequities "Using hard, quantitative data in order to test, critique or support conventional wisdom is very unusual in art-historical research. Painting by Numbers succeeds in making a convincing case for that kind of study, which makes it a model of methodological innovation, and a very welcome one."---Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Art History