State of the Art: This Convolutional Neural Network can Tell you Whether a Painting is a Fake

Abstract

The sound must have been deafening-all those champagne corks popping at Christie's, the British auction house, on 15 November 2017. A portrait of Jesus, known as Salvator Mundi (Latin for “savior of the world”), had just sold at Christie's in New York for US $450.3 million, making it by far the most expensive painting ever to change hands.