Madonna is a Faker
November 23rd, 2004 by Site Admin in SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
No, no not that Madonna, the Catholic Madonna in the picture to the right. I first picked this up over on Defense Tech then on Wired News. A team of programmers at Dartmouth College wrote a computer program that was able to confirm what art historians had been speculating for years, Pietro Perugino’s painting of Madonna and Child, was painted by more than one person. In fact it was painted by at least 4 different people.
Basically the software looks for patterns in brush strokes and points out inconsistencies. They do state the program is not meant to replace the trained eye of professional art historians or scholars, but instead a tool to help confirm or deny what they see.
I’m glad my high school teachers never had something like this to analyze my home work or term papers, because they would have been red flagged for sure!
What you’re still reading? Alright, alright here’s you’re token fake Madonna picture. You know sometimes the internet is a truly scary place.
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