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7 research topics · 19 questions

The disputed attribution of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo da Vinci4 questions
  1. Validating and calibrating CNN authorship attribution for Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: restoration bias, extreme data scarcity, and mixed-authorship thresholds

  2. Quantitative optical discrimination of the Salvator Mundi orb: solid rock-crystal sphere versus hollow glass under physically based rendering

  3. 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

  4. 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
  1. Causal mechanisms of institutional gender inequality in the contemporary art world and the propagation of legacy-collection imbalance into exposure

  2. The untested agency of museum collection fingerprints: reception effects and field-structure reinforcement

Conflicts Between Stylistic Evidence and Inscription Evidence in Dunhuang Mural Dating1 questions
  1. The motive and date of the sealing of the Dunhuang Library Cave (Mogao Cave 17)

Identification of Multi-person Collaboration in Renaissance Studio Paintings3 questions
  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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
  1. Production history of the 'L daVinci'-signed Domitian canvas: extent and chronology of later interventions and the attribution question

  2. The restoration confound in painting attribution: separating the restorer's interventions from the original artist's technique and style

  3. Disambiguating the causes of region-level "not-master" classifications in CNN-based painting attribution

  4. 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
  1. Validated and Generalizable Stroke-Level Computational Attribution and Authentication of Artist Drawings

  2. Old age style in filmmakers: distinguishing late style from decline and testing the generalizability of Claude Sautet's late-career transformation

  3. Image-based discrimination of copies from authentic van Gogh paintings: the unexplained fine-scale texture signal and robustness to stylistic, material, and imaging confounds

  4. Chronology- and workshop-aware computational attribution of the Rubens corpus: modeling stylistic evolution to distinguish genuine change from misattribution

Attribution Boundaries Between Rembrandt’s Own Works and His Studio Works1 questions
  1. Interpretable, cause-discriminating computational attribution of paintings: distinguishing the master's hand from workshop participation, restoration, and imitation

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