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Collaboration between Factum Foundation and CWRU combines machine learning and image analysis

Factum Foundation has initiated a collaboration with a team from the Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Art History and Art Departments at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The goal is to apply machine learning methods to surface profilometry images of paintings in order to attribute stylistic components...

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Playing with ivory

Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce the publication of her article, “Playthings: Ivory on Ivory” in Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Lapina & Vanina Kopp. The article features two Cleveland objects, the celebrated ivory mirror (1940.1200) and the ivory casket with the scenes of romances (1978.39.b). To learn more about the book, click here. To get a copy of the article, please email Prof. Gertsman directly.

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Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter’s Hand

Watch a recording of the Physics Colloquium presentation, "Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter's Hand," here.   Oct 1, 2020 Physics Colloquium (Case Western Reserve University) Data Science in Art: Discerning the Painter's Hand Ken Singer, Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics Mike Hinczewski, Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Physics Betsy Bolman, Elsie B. Smith...

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Prospectus and QP presentations

Please join us for our annual QP and prospectus presentations on November 20th at 1 pm! Angie Verduci will first speak about her dissertation research, focused on late medieval Triumph of Death murals in northern Italy; Annapoorna Moore will follow with a discussion of the gorgeous fourteenth-century silver belt...

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