This is impressive: CSI solved the mystery of the artist Raphael

Artificial intelligence is a state-of-the-art scientific achievement that is used in various fields of activity, including art. A group of American and British scientists has developed the ability of AI to interact with images. They claim to have taught neural networks to perceive details that are not visible to the human eye.

The artificial intelligence model identified something unusual in one of the faces depicted in Raphael's painting "Madonna and the Rose." Specifically, it detected that one of the faces was painted by another artist. This is reported by New Voice with reference to Heritage Science.

The Italian painter of the High Renaissance, Raphael Santi, lived a relatively short life, only 37 years, but managed to create many masterpieces. One of them is "Madonna and the Rose," which is housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary with Christ, John the Baptist, who hands Christ a parchment with the inscription "Agnus Dei" (translated from Latin as the Lamb of God), and St. Joseph.

St. Joseph is depicted in the upper left corner of the painting by Raphael. The AI claims that this face was painted by another artist. According to scientists, artificial intelligence can see much deeper than the human eye.

"We used photographs of real paintings by Raphael to train a neural network to recognize his style down to the smallest detail: brush strokes, color palette, shading, and all aspects of the work", explains mathematician Hasan Ugail from the University of Bradford in the UK.

The difficulty of such a task is that AI needs to be trained on large data sets to obtain reliable results. Therefore, the researchers turned to a pre-trained program developed by Microsoft called ResNet50, combined with a traditional machine learning method called Support Vector Machine.

The authors of the study believe that their AI algorithm will assist art experts in the future.