European Art Paintings with Object and Pose Annotations, 12th-18th Centuries

DEArt is a dataset of European paintings from the 12th to the 18th centuries. It contains more than 15000 images, with manual annotations for bounding boxes identifying 69 object classes and 12 possible poses for human-like objects. The dataset was created by author 'biglam' and last updated on March 31, 2025.

Use Cases

• Train object detection models based on bounding box annotations for 69 classes.
• Develop pose classification algorithms based on 12 labeled poses for human-like objects.
• Analyze the representation of cultural objects in European art across centuries.
• Benchmark model performance on non-iconic (approximately 80%) versus iconic art images.

Strengths

• More than 15000 images provide substantial volume for model training.
• Manual annotations for bounding boxes and poses suggest high-quality labels.
• Covers a broad time range from the 12th to the 18th centuries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to the selected European art corpus.

Provenance

Source

huggingface

Collection Method

Manually annotated images of paintings.

Time Range

12th to 18th centuries

Freshness

Last updated 2025-03-31 18:04:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Europe