Month: June 2026

A fifteenth-century Italian fresco depicting the funeral of Saint Stephen. Mourners in long robes gather around the saint's body, laid out on a bier. The scene unfolds inside a classical architectural setting with columns and arches.A
Nastassia Shaveika

AI, Orientalism, and “Calm” Art

How GPT-4 labeled over half of the world’s art with a single feeling This painting is unmistakably a funeral. Death, in different cultures and to..