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AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio

He is one of the most revered artists in western art, yet just a few dozen works by Caravaggio have survived. Now the 17th-century master’s hand has been confirmed in a painting that Sotheby’s and the Metropolitan Museum in New York had dismissed as a mere copy. Scientific analysis of The Lute Player, which was bought for Badminton House in Gloucestershire in the 18th century, has concluded that it is by Caravaggio, with a probability of 85.7%. Tests involving artificial intelligence showed a “strong match” with…

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AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio
AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums
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AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art’s greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects. The only pr…

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The AI Art Paradigm: Disruptions in the Digital Art Ecosystem and Future Trends
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The AI Art Paradigm: Disruptions in the Digital Art Ecosystem and Future Trends

Art has been integral to human life and evolution since the dawn of time, merging creativity with technological advances. In today's digital art domain, generative AI models such as text-to-image generators create high-quality art in seconds, challenging the current digital art ecosystem. Human artists fear displacement. Consumers and galleries criticize AI art. Policies and legal laws continue to address AI art's ethical, social, and economic implications. Anti-AI groups see AI art as a threat to anthropocentri…

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Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts
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Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts

E]verybody who creates for a living should be in code red." 1 In early April 2023, TikTok user Ghostwriter977 posted a piece titled "Heart on My Sleeve" (stylized in lowercase) that seemed to be sung by Drake and The Weeknd. 2 However, as the song gained massive popularity, Drake and The Weeknd's recording label released a chilling statement: the voices in the song, which had convinced millions of listeners, were, in fact, not Drake or The Weeknd, but an artificially generated imitation made from recordings of D…

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