Having taken a class from Rudolf Arnheim during my graduate days at Harvard University, I can take this experience as the point of departure for describing a research program that departs appreciably from that of my former teacher. Rather than the single-case, qualitative, and interpretative approach favored by Arnheim, I argued for a multiple-case, quantitative, and hypothesis-testing approach—the historiometric analysis of artistic products. The advantages of such historiometric analyses are then illustrated by reviewing key findings in three separate domains: Western classical music, dramatic and poetic literature, and opera. I also discussed whether these same techniques can be usefully applied to the visual arts, the domain that most interested Arnheim.
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