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Arts
7 research topics · 19 questions
The disputed attribution of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo da Vinci4 questions
Validating and calibrating CNN authorship attribution for Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: restoration bias, extreme data scarcity, and mixed-authorship thresholds
Quantitative optical discrimination of the Salvator Mundi orb: solid rock-crystal sphere versus hollow glass under physically based rendering
The seventeenth-century documentary chain of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: identifying Hollar's 1650 model, the two Stuart royal-collection paintings, and the post-1688 disappearance
Discriminating the physical configuration of the orb in Salvator Mundi: which material, lighting, and geometry hypotheses are consistent with the painted fine illumination effects?
Impact of Museum Collection Bias on the Formation of Art History Classics2 questions
Conflicts Between Stylistic Evidence and Inscription Evidence in Dunhuang Mural Dating1 questions
Identification of Multi-person Collaboration in Renaissance Studio Paintings3 questions
Self-supervised separation of mixed X-radiographs of paintings with incomplete or absent RGB side information: multimodal fusion, expert-aligned evaluation, and unexplained optimization asymmetry
What does the microscale topographic signal of painting brushwork encode? Disentangling the artist's hand from materials, technique change, and conservation in PATCH-based attribution
Surface-topography machine learning attribution of paintings under real historical conditions: robustness to alteration, material confounds, and multiple workshop hands
Misjudgment of Original Style Caused by Restoration Interventions4 questions
Production history of the 'L daVinci'-signed Domitian canvas: extent and chronology of later interventions and the attribution question
The restoration confound in painting attribution: separating the restorer's interventions from the original artist's technique and style
Disambiguating the causes of region-level "not-master" classifications in CNN-based painting attribution
The nine versions of Rembrandt's 'Portrait of an Old Man (Possibly a Rabbi)': completing the technical and provenance authentication of an unexamined group and reconstructing its nineteenth-century forgery pathway
Distinguishing Late-style Shifts and Misattributions of Artists4 questions
Validated and Generalizable Stroke-Level Computational Attribution and Authentication of Artist Drawings
Old age style in filmmakers: distinguishing late style from decline and testing the generalizability of Claude Sautet's late-career transformation
Image-based discrimination of copies from authentic van Gogh paintings: the unexplained fine-scale texture signal and robustness to stylistic, material, and imaging confounds
Chronology- and workshop-aware computational attribution of the Rubens corpus: modeling stylistic evolution to distinguish genuine change from misattribution