{"id":166370,"date":"2023-08-08T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=166370"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:10:53","slug":"raphaels-legacy-revived-ai-sheds-new-light-on-a-mysterious-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/raphaels-legacy-revived-ai-sheds-new-light-on-a-mysterious-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphael&#8217;s Legacy Revived: AI Sheds New Light on a Mysterious Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discover the role of AI in the art world, as a four-decade mystery about the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo painting is solved, attributing it to the genius, Raphael.<\/span><\/p>\n           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>Artificial intelligence played a pivotal role in confirming the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo painting as a creation by the renowned Renaissance artist Raphael.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Hassan Ugail, a professor at the University of Bradford, developed an AI model capable of identifying artworks by Old Masters, leading to this significant discovery.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>The combined efforts of AI technology and human expertise could revolutionize the authentication process of artworks, bringing greater transparency to the art world.<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<h2><b>Artificial Intelligence Deciphers Four-Decade Art Puzzle: Raphael&#8217;s De Br\u00e9cy Tondo<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an art-meets-technology revelation that sent ripples through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/chicago-art-show-summer-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">art<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> community earlier this year, a once heatedly debated artwork has finally been attributed to the master of the Renaissance era, Raphael. This historical revelation was possible thanks to the power of artificial intelligence (AI). The now-confirmed Raphael painting, referred to as the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo, is proudly on exhibit for the first time ever at the revered Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, the art fraternity held a somewhat dismissive opinion about the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo. Many assumed it was merely a Victorian-era copy of Raphael&#8217;s original work due to its uncanny resemblance to his celebrated Sistine Madonna altarpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n                        <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- start html -->\r\n                        <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n                                    <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discover the role of AI in the art world, as a four-decade mystery about the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo painting is solved, attributing it to the genius, Raphael.<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/span>\r\n\r\n                                <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                        <!-- end html -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                                    \n<h2><b>The Game-changing Role of AI and Human Expertise in Art Authentication<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter Hassan Ugail, a professor at the University of Bradford and the head honcho of the university&#8217;s center of visual computing. Ugail designed an AI model capable of identifying paintings by Old Masters. Recently, Ugail confidently announced his belief that the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo is undoubtedly a creation by Raphael.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AI Ugail designed, he explained, delves much deeper into an artwork than the human eye can, analyzing intricate details such as brush strokes and pigments. Upon testing the Tondo using this innovative AI model, the results were nothing short of remarkable, firmly suggesting that the artwork was indeed Raphael&#8217;s masterpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ugail\u2019s state-of-the-art methods received validation from several academics who had studied the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/why-is-the-mona-lisa-so-famous-the-story-behind-the-worlds-most-famous-painting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">painting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Among them was Howell Edwards, a molecular spectroscopy expert and Ugail\u2019s colleague at the University of Bradford. Edwards found that the pigments in the de Br\u00e9cy Tondo were characteristic of the Renaissance period, thereby substantiating the AI\u2019s conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their combined efforts led Ugail to declare with conviction, \u201cThe Tondo and the Sistine Madonna are undoubtedly by the same artist.\u201d This statement reinforces the power of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/special-interest\/ai-the-double-edged-sword-of-progress-and-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> working in tandem with human expertise for &#8220;easier authentication&#8221; of artworks and &#8220;greater transparency&#8221; in the art world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10028,"featured_media":166513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}