Medusa - A Leonardo da Vinci TextMaster. 1/1.
Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci is believed to have been created prior to 1500. The work was in the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany, the second Duke of Florence, in 1553, but was lost in the second half of the 16th century. By combining textual research and DALL·E 2 we present the world’s first AI resurrection of da Vinci’s Medusa, nearly 500 years after its disappearance.
Our previous NeoMasters™ work resurrecting lost artwork combines the technologies of spectroscopic imaging, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing to recreate lost artwork that an artist has painted over. To coincide with the release of our latest NeoMasters™at Focus Art Fair in the Louvre, 1-4th September, we're releasing a world first as NFTs on KnownOrigin, namely TextMasters.
TextMasters are of a fundamentally different nature to NeoMasters™, stemming from archived textual records of destroyed artwork where no visual record exists. The first TextMasters release includes destroyed and missing works from the world’s most famous artist, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Vermeer, Giotto di Bondone, Diego Velázquez, Tintoretto, Sandro Botticelli, Titian and Eugène Delacroix. Whilst there exists an infinite range of possibilities as to the original work, all TextMasters are released as 1/1, with only one TextMaster ever generated for a particular lost work.
