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This research aims to explore the representation of pregnancy in early modern Spanish and Portuguese religious art through the lens of artificial intelligence.

May 20, 2026ArtsOpen Access

Seeing the Unborn: Artificial Intelligence and the Iconographic Visibility of Pregnancy in Early Modern Iberian Religious Art

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This research aims to explore the representation of pregnancy in early modern Spanish and Portuguese religious art through the lens of artificial intelligence.
Applied the Astica Vision AI system to analyze 52 artworks depicting pregnancy-related scenes.
Phase one involved submitting images without context to evaluate AI's ability to identify pregnancy.
Phase two reanalyzed the same images with iconographic metadata to observe changes in AI detection.
AI often fails to detect gestation in sacred images; even with context, descriptions of bodily signs are rare.
A modern secular photograph was easily interpreted by AI, highlighting maternal embodiment and emotion.
The findings demonstrate how sacred art prioritizes theological meaning over biological or emotional dimensions.

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This article examines how AI reveals the hidden aspects of pregnancy in early modern Iberian religious art, suggesting new methodologies in the humanities.

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Jose Luis Bartha (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d5100f03e14405aa9d3b8 https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15050106

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This article examines how AI reveals the hidden aspects of pregnancy in early modern Iberian religious art, suggesting new methodologies in the humanities.

Seeing the Unborn: Artificial Intelligence and the Iconographic Visibility of Pregnancy in Early Modern Iberian Religious Art

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