AI on Van Eyck
February 10 2026
Picture: The Guardian
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
There was another curious 'AI authentication' story from The Guardian a few days ago, featuring the usual suspects, this time about two compositions related to Van Eyck.
To quote part of the story:
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”.
Till-Holger Borchert, one of the leading Van Eyck scholars and director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, said the Van Eyck findings supported scholars who had suggested that both versions were studio paintings – produced in the artist’s workshop but not necessarily by him.
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