What Historical Figures Actually Looked Like

Sandro Botticelli

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Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter whose work represented the linear grace of early Renaissance paintings. With the help of Artbreeder, a program that uses artificial intelligence and neural networks, Uterwijk was able to recreate Botticelli’s face. The program creates near-photorealistic images based on his inputs and what the program knows about faces and the way light behaves in photos. Pretty handsome, right?

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