Gustav Klimt's mural paintings were destroyed in World War II, so they're only known from blurry black and white reproductions. But thanks to machine-learning restoration programs, they've been restored to full color.
Jurisprudence (left) and Medicine
"To create the images, Google Arts and Culture and the Belvedere Museum in Vienna developed a tool that culled information about Klimt’s use of color from disparate sources. As Shanti Escalante-De Mattei reports for ARTnews, the data set included contemporary journalistic descriptions of the Faculty Paintings, 1 million pictures of the real world and 80 full-color reproductions of Klimt paintings from the same period. Google engineer Emil Wallner spent nearly six months coding the artificial intelligence (A.I.) algorithm to generate color predictions."
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... and the fact that color studies for them do exist didn't occur to the ML-happy crowd, I suppose? Perhaps it's more fun to pretend there were no studies and figure out the color from hearsay. ;)
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