Have Large Vision-Language Models Mastered Art History?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03521v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 13:33:57 GMT
• Title: Have Large Vision-Language Models Mastered Art History?
• Authors: Ombretta Strafforello, Derya Soydaner, Michiel Willems, Anne-Sofie Maerten, Stefanie De Winter,
• Abstract summary: Art historians have long studied the unique aspects of artworks, with style prediction being a crucial component of their discipline. This paper investigates whether large Vision-Language Models, which integrate visual and textual data, can effectively predict the art historical attributes of paintings.
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• Abstract: The emergence of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has recently established new baselines in image classification across multiple domains. However, the performance of VLMs in the specific task of artwork classification, particularly art style classification of paintings - a domain traditionally mastered by art historians - has not been explored yet. Artworks pose a unique challenge compared to natural images due to their inherently complex and diverse structures, characterized by variable compositions and styles. Art historians have long studied the unique aspects of artworks, with style prediction being a crucial component of their discipline. This paper investigates whether large VLMs, which integrate visual and textual data, can effectively predict the art historical attributes of paintings. We conduct an in-depth analysis of four VLMs, namely CLIP, LLaVA, OpenFlamingo, and GPT-4o, focusing on zero-shot classification of art style, author and time period using two public benchmarks of artworks. Additionally, we present ArTest, a well-curated test set of artworks, including pivotal paintings studied by art historians.

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