Using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, an international team of scientists from the US and UK has determined that Italian Renaissance master Raphael’s painting “Our Lady with the Rose” was only partially created by him, with some elements contributed by others. people. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Heritage Science (HS).
Our Lady with the Rose, located in the Prado Museum in Madrid, the capital of Spain, has attracted the attention of art historians for more than 100 years. Some researchers studying Raphael’s work have suggested that the master was helped by his students while working on the masterpiece. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary with Jesus in her arms, John the Baptist, and also St. Joseph.
To test these predictions, British scientists from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom developed an algorithm that recognizes Raphael’s original works with 98% accuracy.
The neural network examined the image and concluded that Joseph’s face was most likely depicted by someone else, not Raphael. Researchers believe that the co-author of “Madonna with a Rose” may have been a student of the master Giulio Romano.
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