"An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art's greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects."
"Scientific tests involving artificial intelligence on the paintings conducted by Art Recognition, a Swiss company that collaborates on research with Tilburg University in the Netherlands, has been unable to detect any of Van Eyck's brushstrokes. It has concluded that the Philadelphia picture was 91% negative and that the Turin version was 86% negative. The version of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata on display in Turin."
Two near-identical unsigned panels titled Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata hang in Philadelphia and Turin and have been long attributed to Jan van Eyck. Artificial-intelligence analysis by Art Recognition with Tilburg University failed to detect Van Eyck's characteristic brushwork, returning 91% negative for the Philadelphia picture and 86% negative for the Turin version. Leading scholar Till-Holger Borchert said the results support the view that both works could be studio productions rather than autograph works. Art Recognition's CEO Carina Popovici described the high negative percentages as dramatic and contrasted them with an 89% authentic rating for The Arnolfini Portrait.
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