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A mathematical method has been developed that distinguishes between the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and those of his imitators. But can the approach be used to spot imitations of works by any artist?

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Figure 1: Sparse-coding analysis of artistic style.

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  1. School of Optometry (B.A.O.) and Department of Physics (M.R.D.), Bruno A. Olshausen and Michael R. DeWeese are at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. baolshausen@berkeley.edu; deweese@berkeley.edu,

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Olshausen, B., DeWeese, M. The statistics of style. Nature 463, 1027–1028 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4631027a

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