A new digital reconstruction aims to provide a more accurate representation of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. Based on the “Moost Happi” medal from 1534, which is the only surviving undisputed contemporary likeness of the queen, researchers used advanced technology to analyze and enhance her features. This project seeks to move past later, potentially biased portraits created after her execution. The resulting image offers a fresh perspective on a historical figure whose true appearance has been a subject of debate for centuries.
- The reconstruction is primarily based on the “Moost Happi” medallion, currently housed in the British Museum.
- Historians believe the medallion is the only portrait of Anne Boleyn created during her lifetime that was not destroyed or altered.
- Digital artists and researchers used 3D scanning and facial reconstruction software to interpret the worn features of the lead medal.
- The project aims to bypass the inaccuracies of Elizabethan-era portraits, which may have been idealized or influenced by political motivations.
- The updated likeness provides a detailed look at the queen’s bone structure and physical characteristics as they likely appeared in the 1530s.
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The system thinks my truth is insane and censors it!
Join the insane and stop the sane system!
Oh God, not another round of ‘celebrity’ traitors. Biased news and halfwit games shows. If you have half a mind to watch it, it’s probably all you will need.
It’s a artwork not a photo lol
We all know who she was, just say it BBC.
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Unless we're shown extensive and strong evidence that the machine learning works accurately with drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries, there's no reason to believe the results will be useful. Professional art historians are keen to find out the truth about artworks – the fact that they're so often dismissive about certain AI techniques isn't due to some conspiracy or hubris, it's because these techniques are unproven and lack an understanding of how art works.
bbc can prove she never existed
Anne never reigned, Henry the eighth did she was queen consort not the sovereign. Whether its her or not doesn't matter its interesting.
U ppl really love ur monarchs, u know they all stole precious antiques from every country they colonized and won't give them back.
Who gives a toss?
You mean she wasn't black?
Pretty sure she was black,I've seen a tv show about her.
That looks exactly like Anne of Cleves.
Brits are too much! 😅 Isn't the poor lasses head laying around somewhere? 😢
The first victim in London the other day was Muslim so why is it being portrayed as an anti-Semitic attack? Looks like an excuse to ban protest.
she looked like her daughter, only with dark hair.
https://youtube.com/shorts/loK2_UZKKd4?si=SUXYDQ2RMQY1f0CR
She does not look black so cannot be her lol
Eww
Part of the issue here is that everyone is somewhat related to each other
Nope – looks like some Latin waiter..
I remember in my childhood the time when we bought the first colour television at our family's home ( german Telefunken Palcolor) ,when those evenings after dinner we were sitting in the sofa and we were enjoying "Robin's Nest " , "Bonanza" , " Henri VIII's six wives " etc. I promise I also saw ,live on colour TV ,in the seventies ,Rod Stewart singing "don't you think I'm sexy " as a world premiere . British productions were prime time very apreciated shows. And this BBC news video is also nostalgic and artistic but in order to see the reality as it was 400 years later. Because you want to be sure about queen Anne Bollleyn real and authentic picture ,no matter how or who or the way it is done. She was queen Elisabeth I's mother and it means she did it great.
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Former PM ,Mr.Johnson,
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Anne's mother would have been in her late 50s at the time of the blonde portrait. The idea that it's AB's mum is ridiculous!
I don’t think she had a dat neck like that profile pic gives her!
I have no idea, but I will say that the eyes of the "Unknown woman" are incredibly striking and even after 500 years are still captivating. The focus of the artist on these incredible deep thoughtful eyes seem noteworthy to me because I feel like while eyes are always important in a painting of a person, I don't feel like other drawings of that time have the same focus and intensity of gaze. Everything else in it is a sketch, but the eyes, he has gone all in as if he is trying to capture everything about them. It is also interesting in that while Anne was not considered a great beauty herself, "Anne Boleyn’s eyes were consistently described by contemporaries as "black and beautiful," serving as a key feature of her captivating and unconventional beauty." (Google AI quote)
I also think the Unknown woman is interesting because she doesn't appear stylized to the beauty standard of the time. She looks like an actual woman. Most portrait paintings historically make all the people look like siblings because they force the beauty standard into every painting, where that drawing seems more true to life before the artist was like well, your eyes must be smaller, your face must be an oval and have no cheek or brow bones, your nose and mouth must be just so….not that that makes her more or less likely to be one person or another. I just think it makes the sketch look more modern.
Ce portrait de face est absolument fascinant et incroyablement représentatif. Lorsqu’on le compare à la miniature de la bague de sa fille Élisabeth Ire, la ressemblance est frappante. En observant de près la structure osseuse, le front et surtout ses yeux si hypnotiques, on perçoit une harmonie naturelle et une présence unique. On est face à une beauté à l’état brut, sans artifices, qui correspond parfaitement aux descriptions historiques de son charisme.
D'ailleurs, aujourd'hui encore, peu de visages ressortiraient avec une telle beauté en portant cette coiffe française qui ne pardonne rien. Je suis convaincue qu’il pourrait effectivement s'agir du véritable visage d'Anne Boleyn.
so creepy and insane – why are there no normal people at the bbc
Dr Bendor is a Doctor in Tory PR, NOT SCIENCE!! Nor Art History. Bendor has continually disregarded science & the science of AI & he beleives in his own personal Subjective opinions. Why does the BBC continually support so called experts that have Zero Scientific backgrounds in computer science? Yeh sure he has subjective opinions & he can express them in theatrical vocabulary, but they are definitely not founded in science!
Google News inundated me with a bunch of paywalled articles about this earlier today so I was hoping to come across this. Naturally, it provides absolutely nothing. Here's where I am baffled…
I've always understood this sketch to be of Amalia of Cleves, sister of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII's fourth wife, rendered in 1539 by Holbein during the same trip when he was tasked with painting both sisters so that Henry could select one of them for marriage. I didn't even think it was ever up for debate.
Even if the sketch is unidentified, the fact that this woman is wearing clothing that is neither English nor French, including the hood, leans heavily away from it being Anne Boleyn. It looks decidedly Germanic to me, giving credence to the notion that it's Holbein's sketch of Amalia von Cleves.
shes the queen of gold diggers
Else we could just her remains, assuming there is something left, and do facial reconstruction. why royals can't be forensically examined is beyond me
Ohhh I see… Anne Boleyn is interesting because she was the mother of celebrated Queen Elizabeth Ist… not really because she was one of the many wives of Henri VIII.
Yep, sounds great to use computers to decide who is who. I mean any similarities could be because of the same artist painting the portraits. Also they were meant to flatter so they are not a true representative of the person. I'll ask History Calling or Reading the Past first!
The headdress on the "new" drawing is nothing like what English women were wearing at the time. Looks more continental European. I always thought that drawing was supposed to be the sister of Anna of Cleves.
I am amazed the BBC didn't find out she had African roots.
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In the city of Pune (State Maharashtra) a 4 year old girl was raped by a 65 year old man
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This person looks of Spanish descent. I would also like to know if the peculiar headgear is specific to any particular culture