Known as De Brecy Tondo, the work may be Italian Renaissance artist Raphael's masterpiece, according to researchers at the Universities of Nottingham and Bradford who used facial recognition technology to identify its author..
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The experts found that the faces of the Virgin and children in the painting, studied for more than 30 years, are identical to the face on the altar of Raphael's "
Analysis of digital images and comparison of drawings in two works showed that the facial features of the Madonnas are 97% similar, and the facial features of the recorded angels and the baby were 86% identical..
With that in mind, University of Nottingham researcher emeritus Dr Christopher Brooke told the BBC that these numbers indicate a very high statistical likelihood that artworks are by one artist..
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The authors of the study are Hasan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford.; Howell Edwards Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy and Timothy Benoy Art Researcher and Honorary Secretary of the De Brecy Trust.
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The article was submitted? at an international conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and is expected to be published at the end of January.
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It should be noted that Ugail has developed an AI-assisted facial recognition system that can identify patterns in images and videos with a level of accuracy that far exceeds the human eye..
New face recognition analysis of De Brecy Tondo painting could provide additional credibility to preliminary studies of pigments used in 2004. Molecular analysis by Howell Edwards showed that the pigments in the painting are typical of the early period from the Renaissance to 1700.. , this is hardly a Victorian copy, as was thought.
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In 1981 businessman and art collector George Lester Winward purchased De Brecy Tondo.. This man, two years before his death, that is, in 1995, created the famous De Brecy Foundation in order to preserve his collection and make the works available for further study..
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The painting was first described as the work of "