AI Detects an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece

AI confirmed a Raphael masterpiece wasn't painted by the famous artist alone

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael's famous Madonna della Rosa)? That's St. Joseph lurking over the Madonna, the Child, and St. John. And yes, he does seem to be painted differently than the others, something scholars have always attributed to someone else actually painting St. Joseph in the Madonna of the Rose painting. But since you can talk to the Renaissance master about his painting, and since ther…

AI Detects an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael.

Raphael’s masterpiece may not be all his

One of the most debated faces in Renaissance art may not have been painted by the master himself. A new AI-driven study reveals that the face of St Joseph in Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa was likely created by someone else. Researchers applied a machine learning model trained on the artist’s known works and found that this particular face does not match Raphael’s signature style. This finding supports a long-standing theory among art historians. …