20 contemporary portraits of historical figures

Brazilian artist Khidreli Diao uses FaceApp and a neural network to create realistic portraits of famous historical figures.

He finds images in photo stocks that look like great people of the past, after which he superimposes preserved portraits and sculptures of these people on them using the Artbreeder neural network. For further refinement, he uses FaceApp. By words author, each portrait takes no more than 2 hours: without AI, it would be impossible to achieve such deadlines.

Diao notes that he was inspired to create these images by the work of the Dutch photographer Bas Uterwijk, about whom Lifehacker has already told previously.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Marie Antoinette

George Washington

Leonardo da Vinci

Caligula

Julius Caesar

Alexander the Great

Hatshepsut

Cleopatra

Vasco da Gama

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

Antonio Vivaldi

Joan of Arc

Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare

Frida Kahlo

Vincent Van Gogh

Sandro Botticelli

Marquise de Pompadour