Photos: Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage

A stolen painting was identified at Parma's annual antiquity fair by cops using AI software trained on photos of missing works.

the police system flagged one of the snapshots with an alert signal: a painting of a young, fair-skinned woman wearing aquamarine and red, holding up a half-unravelled parchment scroll. The next day, officers rushed to the scene and seized the painting for their art experts to take a second look … While Rapicavoli's team has specialised in tracking down stolen artworks nationwide for decades, he says that the novel, tailor-made artificial intelligence system they were testing at the fair has massively sharpened their craft.…