# @hyperallergic on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPR7jJVE-Pw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35240194-hyperallergic-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/db68d50b66.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-10-01T20:33:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

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. 
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"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) 

#Caravaggio #AI #Authenticity

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## Tags

caravaggio, authenticity, ai

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