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Google App Matching Selfies with Historical Portraits Has Mixed Results But Is 100% Viral

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

A new feature of the Google Arts & Culture app promises to match users’ selfies with similar faces in artworks, though the algorithm’s questionable pairings are often just as interesting as its uncanny matches.

Posted inNews

Discover Your Ancient Sculptural Doppelgänger

by Claire Voon April 26, 2017April 25, 2017

On the website of Quebec’s Musée de la Civilisation, facial recognition software will match your visage with a 2,000-year-old work of art.

Posted inIn Brief

Artist Combs the Planet for Best van Gogh Lookalike

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne June 28, 2016June 27, 2016

Calling all bearded redheads: Canadian artist and author Douglas Coupland is searching for Vincent van Gogh’s closest lookalike.

Posted inArt

Dalí’s Doppelgängers and Ghosts

by Sola Agustsson June 17, 2016June 19, 2016

Salvador Dalí was named after his brother, who died in infancy, before Dalí was born.

Posted inOpinion

TV Network Gets Man With Art Doppelganger to Dress the Part

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 16, 2012November 19, 2012

ABC News has convinced Max Galuppo of Bloomsbury, NJ, who was propelled into the public spotlight when Reddit users couldn’t believe how much he looked like “Portrait of a Nobleman with Duelling Gauntlet” (1562) by an anonymous artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to dress up like the 16th C. Italian noble and appear on national TV.

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Man Finds His Doppelganger at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 13, 2012November 18, 2012

On November 11, Max Galuppo, 20, of Bloomsbury, NJ, encountered his doppelganger (aka his double) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the resemblance is uncanny.

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