Table 3 Number of paintings collected in our corpus representing aquatic biodiversity and painted in Italy according to the defined time periods and geographic zones where the paintings were sourced

From: Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity

Geographic zone

[1500–1650]

[1650–1700]

[1700–1800]

Total

Inland (North of Italy)

29

31

70

130

Adriatic Sea

6

14

46

66

Liguro-Tyrrhenian Sea

34

120

34

188

Total

69

165

150

384

  1. Bold values correspond to the sum of columns and lines.