An extraordinary new digital art project aims to recreate classic portaits in photorealistic style, showing how some of the most famous painters and paintings in history would have looked had camera technology been invented in the 16th century.
The creative team, led by British digital artist Quentin Devine, included a photographer, a stylist and a makeup artist.
Together they recreated four classic paintings - Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, iconic self-portraits by grandmasters Rembrandt and Raphael, and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy .
Each of the portraits was first painstakingly photographed using a lookalike model, with styling and makeup to match the original painting, before final touches were made by a digital artist.
The team focused on matching the styling, lighting, textures and overall composition of the paintings to produce the most detailed match of the original painting as possible, while staying true to a realistic photograph.
Each portrait took a total of 36 hours to complete.
The project was commissioned by TV channel Yesterday, to encourage people to watch its new show "Raiders of the Lost Art", which explores the fascinating history behind the world's most iconic paintings.
"It’s incredible that we can finally see what grandmasters Raphael and Rembrandt would have looked like in real life. They could never have imagined their paintings could be recreated so accurately more than three centuries later!" said Adrian Wills, general manager for Yesterday.
"People have pondered for centuries on Mona Lisa’s ambiguous facial expression – was she smiling or frowning? This recreation indicates it was indeed a smile, and she was perhaps more beautiful than the painting suggests."
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