Can A.I. Determine Which Artist Made a Painting? This New Brushstroke Detection Tool May Have Solved a Mystery About El Greco

El Greco’s Paintings Reconsidered as AI Examination Challenges Workshop Theory

El Greco’s “The Baptism of Christ,” possibly completed by his workshop, and “Christ on the Cross with Landscape” (c. 1600–1610). Credit: Wikimedia Commons; Cleveland Museum of Art / Public domain El Greco, the Greek-born painter who became one of Spain’s most celebrated Renaissance artists, is at the center of a new AI study that challenges long-held ideas about how some of his major paintings were created. The research, led by Andrew Van Horn a…

Can A.I. Determine Which Artist Made a Painting? This New Brushstroke Detection Tool May Have Solved a Mystery About El Greco

While debating the authorship of "The Baptism of Christ," one of El Greco’s final works, art experts long relied on their own analysis of brushstrokes. A new study tapped artificial intelligence to peer at the paint at a microscopic level

Brushstroke-mapping AI reopens a centuries-old mystery about one of El Greco's masterpieces

Spanish Renaissance master El Greco is often considered one of the greatest painters of all time, and many of his artworks are displayed in galleries around the world. His painting The Baptism of Christ is generally believed by art historians to have been unfinished at the time of his death in 1614 and completed by his son, Jorge Manuel. But new research using AI suggests that the artist may have played more of a role in completing the work than…

AI Model Reveals New Information About Authorship of 17th-Century El Greco Altarpiece

A group of scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has built a new machine-learning program that might help art historians determine how many artists’ hands contributed to the creation of centuries-old artworks. The dozen researchers who published the paper in Science Advances range from physicists and computer scientists to art historians and anthropologists. The AI model is called PATCH, which stands for pairwise as…