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Is it a Canaletto or a Bellotto? Don’t ask an art historian
- cafard 11y agoI almost never do. To be less flippant, I'm not sure that defining the field of art history more broadly is a bad thing. I would hate to see the disappearance of those who can make fine distinctions between painters; there should be room for them too in the art history world. I did guess correctly, by the way, but I couldn't tell you whether it was because I saw one of the pictures long ago at a Canaletto exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, from books, or just chance.
- gertef 11y agoNeed people to classify paintings by idiosyncratic style? This seems like a rather approachable problem for Google Brain and friends. Heck, since the painters are all dead, you can solve most of the problem by just saving a copy of all the known authorships, and classify the rest.