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A Swiss artificial intelligence firm, Art Recognition, has claimed with high certainty that two versions of the painting 'Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata' (ca. 1428-32), held by the Royal Museums of Turin and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are not by the hand of Northern Renaissance master Jan van Eyck. The company's CEO, Carina Popovici, stated the A.I. model determined the works were not authentic with 91% and 86% certainty, respectively, though the museums involved have not officially commented.

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The National Gallery in London will host "Van Eyck: The Portraits" in November, a landmark exhibition uniting all nine of Jan van Eyck's surviving portraits for the first time. This includes masterpieces like *The Arnolfini Portrait* (1434) and loans from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, alongside the recently conserved *Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)* (1433).