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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Annabel Nugent

AI analysis reveals £71,000 painting thought to be a copy is a genuine Caravaggio

Artificial intelligence has concluded that a painting dismissed by Sotheby’s and the Metropolitan Museum as a copy is, in fact, by Caravaggio.

The 17th-century Baroque master, full name Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is one of the most revered artists in history. Only a few dozen of the Italian painter’s works have survived.

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