The author of a Renaissance painting identified thanks to artificial intelligence

The author of a Renaissance painting has been identified thanks to artificial intelligence after 40 years of research by a collector.

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George Lester Winward, who had acquired it in 1981, suspected the Italian Raphael (1487-1520) of being the painter.

Shortly before his death, he bequeathed the painting to the De Brécy fund, in France, so that researchers could have access to it.

It was finally the British universities of Nottingham and Bradford who managed to make the impressive discovery thanks to an easy recognition tool by comparing Raphael’s Sistine Madonna with De Brécy Tondo, both very similar.

“Looking at the faces with the human eye, there is an obvious similarity, but the computer can see much deeper than us, in thousands of dimensions, at the pixel level”, explains one of the professors responsible for the work.

The software demonstrated that these two works were 97% identical, whereas it is considered to be the same artist if this percentage reaches 75% or more.

The issuance of a certificate of authenticity is always uncertain.

– According to information from BFM