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Did Facial Recognition Find a Lost Portrait of Anne Boleyn? Scholars Debate Whether A.I. Solved or Merely Muddled an Art History Mystery

Smithsonian Magazine·Christian Thorsberg·27 days ago
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Accused of treason, the second wife of Henry VIII lost her head. Now, some researchers argue that she also lost her face among dozens of potentially mislabeled portraits in a royal art collection For centuries, the sketch on the left has been identified as Anne Boleyn, while the identity of the woman on the right has been unknown. Royal Collection Trust In a quest to solve a centuries-old mystery that has captured the curiosity of art historians and Renaissance chroniclers, a team of researchers used an A.I. model to try to identify an unknown figure from Tudor history. Their findings, published in March in the journal npj Heritage Science , suggest that a 16th-century sketch housed in Britain’s Royal Collection Trust is none other than Anne Boleyn, the ill-fated queen and second wife of Henry VIII executed at the Tower of London. The study also suggests a second sketch supposedly portraying Anne Boleyn actually doesn’t, after all.…

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