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Art-Historically Grounded Multimodal Pretraining for Art Authentication

Springer

Batu Arda Düzgün, Ludovica Schaerf, Alessandra Conti, Eric O. Postma

Ep. 9. THE ART OF AI: A conversation with Carina Popovici

Exploring Art History · 23 July 2026

The Curious AI Case of a Kirchner Painting in Limbo

The Art Journal · 20 August 2026

Three Works Put AI Authentication to the Market Test

How Art Recognition-supported attributions performed at Germann Auction House in Zurich

From Critic to Collaborator

How a sceptical Van Dyck scholar put Art Recognition’s methods to the test—and ended up co-authoring the results

The Kirchner That Spent Decades in Limbo

How Art Recognition helped settle the authorship of Katze in Blumenwiese

In Conversation with Dr Carina Popovici: AI, Risk, and the New Standards of Authenticity

THE EXCLUSIVIST · 18 July 2026

Integrating Art Historical Knowledge into AI-Based Authorship Detection in Jan van Eyck’s Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal (2026)

Till-Holger Borchert, Alessandra Conti, Batu Arda Düzgün, Carina Popovici

Taller Together Ep 12 | The Raphael That Wasn’t | Carina Popovici

ARMATURE · 08 July 2026

Amedeo Modigliani Scholar Disputes AI Art Authentication Firm’s Claim

The Art Journal · 19 June 2026

The da Vinci Mystery in Söderköping

SVT · 18 May 2026

Masterpiece or cheap copy? Art historians and AI may not agree

CNN · 9 March 2026

AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

The Guardian · 27 February 2026

Caravaggio’s Lute Player: Three Versions, One Century of Disagreement, and an AI Tie Breaker

Caravaggio did not paint many pictures, but he inspired thousands. That imbalance, a small documented oeuvre and an enormous afterlife of imitation, is why attribution in Caravaggio studies can feel like detective work conducted in half-light. Few cases capture that better than…

Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider: When Restoration Obscures Authorship

Few paintings in the canon of Old Master art have generated as much sustained debate as The Polish Rider, housed in the Frick Collection. Long celebrated as a masterpiece by Rembrandt, the work has, for decades, occupied an uneasy position between admiration…

Art Recognition : l’authentification des oeuvres à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

Le Soir · 24 December 2025

Has science finally solved mystery of the vanishing Vermeer?

The Times · 24 November 2025

Investment Firm Alpha Star invests 1 million USD in AI Art Authentication Company Art Recognition

Business Insider · 29 October 2025

AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio

The Guardian · 27 September 2025

AI and the Art World

Arte TV · June 2025

Una Vilana Windisch: When a Dürer Refused to Stay Quiet

Some artworks arrive with a whisper. Others arrive with an argument already attached. Una Vilana Windisch belongs firmly to the latter category. From the moment this quiet, piercing portrait of a peasant woman resurfaced, it seemed determined to provoke disagreement, scrutiny, and,…

Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI

Wired · 20 March 2025

Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?

The Art Newspaper · 18 March 2025

Why the art trade should learn to love forensics

Financial Times · 6 March 2025

The art of forgeryーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS

NHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS · 31 January 2025

Swiss Auction House Becomes First to Sell Artwork Authenticated Solely by AI

ARTnews · 3 December 2024

Can AI shed new light on how much of The Polish Rider was painted by Rembrandt?

The Art Newspaper · December 2024

Art authenticators: AI could be your new best friend

Plaster Magazine · 20 November 2024

‘A real leap of faith’: Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

The Art Newspaper · 31 October 2024

Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Don Felipe de Guzmán: When Skepticism Turns into Collaboration

Art authentication has never been a straight line of progress. It advances in fits and starts, shaped as much by skepticism as by discovery. Traditional connoisseurship, grounded in long looking and deep familiarity, remains one of its central pillars. Over time, it…

Journal de 20 Heures

TF1 · 15 September 2024

Counterfeit – Challenging fakes with cutting-edge AI

TrooRa Magazine · Fall 2024

AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

ARTnews · 30 August 2024

Will AI Change Art History Forever?

ARTnews · 29 August 2024

Authenticity in the Age of Algorithms: How AI Evaluates Art

Arte TV · 18 August 2024

The Interplay of Art Historical Connoisseurship and Artificial Intelligence in Authenticating a Painting Attributed to Anthony van Dyck

Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal (2024)

Nils Büttner, Alita De Feudis, Carina Popovici

Front Row: A.I. and Fake Art

BBC · 14 May 2024

Fake Monet and Renoir on eBay among 40 counterfeits identified using AI

The Guardian · 8 May 2024

Interview With Dr. Carina Popovici – CEO & Co-Founder at Art Recognition

Safety Detectives · 23 April 2024

KI soll Kunstfälschungen erkennen

Monopol Magazin · 2 April 2024

Echt oder nicht? KI hilft bei Kunstfälschungen

Deine Korrespondentin · 2 April 2024

A definite Dürer? AI research says German artist 82% likely to have painted portrait of peasant woman

The Art Newspaper · 11 March 2024

AI meets Old Masters in the fight to authenticate paintings

Financial Times · 2 March 2024

Synthetic images aid the recognition of human-made art forgeries

Public Library of Science — PLOS ONE (2024)

Johann Ostmeyer, Ludovica Schaerf, Pavel Buividovich, Tessa Charles, Eric Postma, Carina Popovici

Raphael and the de Brécy Tondo Madonna: When One AI Gets Ahead of the Evidence

In early 2023, the art world was jolted by what sounded like a once-in-a-generation discovery. The de Brécy Tondo Madonna, a small devotional painting long admired but cautiously classified, was suddenly proclaimed a lost masterpiece by Raphael. The basis for this dramatic…

A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?

The Art Newspaper · 9 November 2023

Raphael’s Collaborative Practice: Partial Authorship and the Limits of the Eye

Few names in Renaissance art carry the weight of Raphael. Celebrated in his own lifetime and canonized soon after, Raffaello Sanzio occupies a rare position as both an artist of supreme refinement and a figure whose works were intensely desired, copied, adapted,…

Two AI models produced different AI results when authenticating a Raphael painting.

Artnet News Op-Ed · 10 October 2023

Art authentication with vision transformers

Springer — Neural Computing and Applications (2023)

Ludovica Schaerf, Eric Postma, Carina Popovici

What Can Artificial Intelligence Offer Art Authentication?

The Art Law Podcast · 9 June 2023

THE WOMEN BUILDING A MORE TRANSPARENT & ACCESSIBLE ART WORLD AND MARKET

MyArtBroker · 1 March 2023

Is This Painting a Raphael or Not? A Fortune Rides on the Answer

The Wall Street Journal · 18 February 2023

Computer says there is a 80.58% probability painting is a real Renoir

The Guardian · 19 November 2022

The case of the disputed Lucian Freud

The New Yorker · 26 September 2022

AI for art: forgery or hidden master piece?

TEDx Nürnberg · 17 July 2022

Der Tizian im Kunsthaus Zürich ist sehr wahrscheinlich kein Tizian

Neue Züricher Zeitung · 11 March 2022

L’intelligence artificielle peut-elle détecter les faux dans l’art? Débat entre Christiane Hoppe-Oehl et Anne-Laure Bandle

Radio Télévision Suisse · 19 December 2021

New tools are making it easier to authenticate paintings

The Economist · 1 September 2021

Was famed Samson and Delilah really painted by Rubens? No, says AI

The Guardian · 26 June 2021

Zürcher Firma erklärt teures Rubens-Gemälde für unecht

Tages Anzeiger · 11 March 2021

Wie man Fälschern mit Algorithmen das Handwerk legt

Die Presse · 2 February 2021

«Die Idee»: Mit einem Algorithmus Kunstfälschungen erkennen

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen · 24 October 2020

Der Kunstmarkt ist mit Fälschungen durchsetzt – die Software von Carina Popovici kommt den Tätern auf die Schliche

Neue Züricher Zeitung · 20 January 2020

Can AI Art Authentication Put An End To Art Forgery?

Artnome · 13 September 2019

Kees van Dongen’s Nu en Buste: When Two Paintings Can’t Both Be Right

Art history is full of doubles. Copies, replicas, studio versions, later repetitions. Most of the time, they coexist peacefully. But every so often, two nearly identical works surface that force the art world into an uncomfortable binary. Only one can be right.…

Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait? When Certainty Arrived Before the Headlines

Few artists generate as much passion, projection, and scholarly anxiety as Vincent van Gogh. His paintings feel intimate, confessional, almost autobiographical, which makes questions of authenticity especially charged. A Van Gogh is never just a Van Gogh.