Perfect Painting: de Piles' List

Ranking Artists "Rationally"
Without too much comment, I present the Louis XIV era French theorist Roger de Piles' rankings of artists according to a tally of their individual qualities; suffice it to say, while I'm intrigued by the idea, and sympathetic to de Piles' partisanship for "color" or the "Rubenistes," I would quibble with the particulars (how does Michelangelo wind up so far down, below Abraham van Diepenbeeck?).

Roger de Piles, Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres (1708)

arranged from highest to lowest

Painter	Composition	Drawing	Color	Expression	Total
Raphael	17	18	12	18	65
Rubens	18	13	17	17	65
Annibale? Carracci	15	17	13	13	58
Domenichino	15	17	9	17	58
Charles Le Brun	16	16	8	16	56
Guido Reni	x	13	9	12	?
Van Dyck	15	10	17	13	55
Vanius	15	15	12	13	55
Correggio	13	13	15	12	53
Titian	12	15	18	6	51
Rembrandt	15	6	17	12	50
Tintoretto	15	14	16	4	49
Giulio Romano	15	16	4	14	49
Eustache Le Sueur	15	15	4	15	49
Leonardo da Vinci	15	16	4	14	49
Otho Venius	13	14	10	10	47
Primaticcio	15	14	7	10	46
Teniers	15	12	13	6	46
Taddeo Zuccari	13	14	10	9	46
Andrea del Sarto	12	16	9	8	45
Federico Barocci	14	15	6	10	45
Perin del Vaga	15	16	7	6	44
Sebastiano del Piombo	8	13	16	7	44
Francesco Salviati	13	15	8	8	44
Veronese	15	10	16	3	44
Guercino	18	10	10	4	42
Giovanni Lanfranco	14	13	10	5	42
Abraham van Diepenbeeck	11	10	14	6	41
Palma il Giovane	12	9	14	6	41
Jacob Jordaens	10	8	16	6	40
Lucas Jordaens	13	12	9	6	40
Daniele da Volterra	12	15	5	8	40
Giorgione	8	9	18	4	39
Holbein	9	10	16	3	38
Giovanni da Udine	10	8	16	3	37
Michelangelo	8	17	4	8	37
Parmigianino	10	15	6	6	37
Albrecht Dürer	8	10	10	8	36
Federico Zuccari	10	10	8	8	36
Murillo	6	8	15	4	33
Pietro Testa	11	15	0	6	32
Jacopo Bassano	6	8	17	0	31
Palma il Vecchio	5	6	16	0	31
Sebastian Bourdon	10	8	8	4	30
Cavalier D'Arpino	10	10	6	2	28
Caravaggio	6	6	16	0	28
Giovanni Bellini	4	6	14	0	24
Lucas van Leyden	8	6	6	4	24
Gianfrancesco Penni	0	15	8	0	23

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_Piles

The complete list is transcribed here from Manlio Brusatin, Histoire des couleurs (Paris: Flammarion, 1986, pp. 103–104), reproduced in Elisabeth G. Holt, Literary Sources of Art History, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), pp. 415–416)