AI to Reimagine Lost Delacroix Frescoes?

April 4 2025

Video: via Instagram

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

Scientists and Art Historians in France may have finally come across a genuinely interesting way to employ AI in the field of art historical research. A new research project entitled Digital Delacroix has joined figures from the Sorbonne and AI geeks from Schmidt Sciences in order to recreate lost Delacroix frescoes that were destroyed by fire at the Hôtel de Ville in 1871. AI will apparently be bringing together and process surviving studies and archival material to digitally recreate these lost works. Click on the link above to read more.

Let's hope Delacroix's figures won't end up having 6 fingers and three arms (which often happens with lots of AI generated images these days)...

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