Timothy Benoy (at left), the current owner of the de Brécy Tondo, along with two researchers who studied the work using AI to determine that Raphael had painted it. It’s not often that the work of authenticating art makes mainstream news, but that’s exactly what happened last year when a team of researchers in the UK determined that an anonymous, centuries-old painting known as the de Brécy Tondo was likely made by the Renaissance giant Raphael . It was a bold claim—one with potentially huge financial implications—but what really caught people’s attention was the technology the researchers used to get there: AI. The group, led by two science professors—Christopher Brooke from the University of Nottingham, and Hassan Ugail from the University of Bradford—developed a facial recognition model to compare […]
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