Painting of the Virgin Mary

Giotto is famous for producing the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, 1305, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel. The decoration is a fresco cycle which depicts the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Early Renaissance. It is thought that Giotto painted another seminal piece of the Virgin Mary between 1297–1337, but the location of the painting is currently unknown. Records show that the work was given by the poet patron Petrarch to Francesca da Carrara, Lord of Padua, in 1370, after which the trail goes cold. By combining textual research and DALL·E 2, we present the world’s first AI resurrection of Giotto’s ‘Painting of the Virgin Mary’, more than 650 years after its disappearance.