Fine Art Paintings and Drawings: What Can Computer Analysis Reveal? (Art)

Fine art paintings and drawings provide some of the most sophisticated, subtle, memorable, important, and occasionally perplexing images ever created.  Recently, researchers versed in computer science and art history have applied computer methods to problems in the history and interpretation of such images.  In doing so, they have provided automated tools that empower art scholars to address a much wider range of interpretive problems as well as resolved long-standing debates resistant to traditional scholarly methods.