AI confirmed a Raphael masterpiece wasn’t painted by the famous artist alone

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael's famous Madonna della Rosa)? That's St. Joseph lurking over the Madonna, the Child, and St. John. And yes, he does seem to be painted differently than the others, something scholars have always attributed to someone else actually painting St. Joseph in the Madonna of the Rose painting.

But since you can talk to the Renaissance master about his painting, and since there could be several reasons why Raphael himself might have opted for this particular display of St. Joseph, it's really up to the person in front of the painting to make up their own mind about what they're looking at.

But fast forward to the 21st century and the dawn of increasingly intelligent AI models, and we seem to have a definitive answer. It wasn't Raphael who painted the face in the background. For reasons unknown, someone else got to do that.

While AI can look at the painting differently and determine that not all four faces were drawn by the hands of the same person, it can't necessarily tell us who painted St. Joseph.

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