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Oxia Palus (a pseudonym for researchers George Cann and Anthony Bourached) found this obscured image of a woman in Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl.

Credit: Oxia Palus

Advanced technologies are rediscovering previously hidden masterpieces.

George Cann and Anthony Bourached at the U.K.'s University College London (UCL) employed artificial intelligence (AI) to render x-ray images of paintings as three-dimensional prints that recreate concealed images’ colors and texture.

London's National Gallery partnered with UCL and Imperial College London to produce clearer images of a portrait underneath Francisco de Goya's Doña Isabel de Porcel by having a computer combine multiple scans from different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum also has used AI to reconstruct lost panels from Rembrandt's The Night Watch from a copy by artist Gerrit Lundens, converting his style into Rembrandt's.

From BBC News
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