The De Brécy Tondo, a circular devotional painting of the Madonna and Child, is the subject of 40 years’ meticulous research as a putative work by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael. It has recently been confirmed to be by Raphael by the latest AI analysis of a team of expert scientists, researching pro bono, from the universities of Bradford and Nottingham, led by Professor Hassan Ugail, director of Bradford’s Centre for Visual Computing.
Professor Howell Edwards’s book, A Raphael Madonna and Child Oil Painting: A Forensic Analytical Evaluation, recounts in fullest detail the history of the forensic analysis of the painting that has culminated in confirmation that it was created by Raphael.
