An artificial intelligence company claims to have outsmarted decades of research by expert art historians using only a photograph. Art Recognition, a Swiss AI research company, says a painting long believed to be a copy of a work by Caravaggio is in fact an original by the Baroque Italian painter, disputing long-held attributions by Sotheby’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others. The company’s AI analysis of “The Lute Player” concluded that there is an 85.7% likelihood that the work is a bona fide Caravaggio. Art Recognition boasts on its website that its system can verify an artwork in a few days, “based only on a photograph of it.” The claim is all the more eyebrow-raising because very few paintings by Caravaggio are believed to have survived. Read the full story by mayapontone at the link in bio. . . . "The Lute Player" formerly of Badminton House, which Art Recognition claims is a genuine Caravaggio based on AI analysis (image via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) #...