AI art for historical scenes

AI art can be used to create realistic-looking scenes that depict the past either how we it may have looked like to the best of our knowledge or how stories depict it. The latter may also include images for imaginary stories of the past, illustrating how imaginaries of past people may have looked like in more visual ways.

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See also: AI art for recreated ancient scenes.

Using tools like DreamBoth one can train AIs on a set of images based on a historical figure. Below are some examples which may deviate somewhat from how Ferdinand II of Naples (Ferrandino d'Aragona) looked like at an older age according to the artistic drawing that is the first image here and the second image that was drawn a whole hundred years after he died:

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  ~1477 childish portrait
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  Died in 1496; image made in 1596
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 01.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 02.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 03.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 04.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 05.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 06.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona e la moglie Giovannella di Napoli 07.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 01.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 02.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 03.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 04.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 05.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 06.jpg
• File:Re Ferrandino d'Aragona alla battaglia di Seminara 07.jpg

AI art generators usually make people look better so as you can see it may often deviate from existing images of a character. However, if you provide more training data or the AI generator is well trained on it (which is sometimes the case for some currently famous people), then the characters may look more realistic.

Instead of making the file focus on the character it would be better to focus on the historical event or the historical scene. For example, the image could portray how a village in the Middle Ages may have realistically looked like at high resolution.

If there are extra fingers or unrealistic/unwanted objects, you can use img2img with negative prompts like "extra fingers" and a high image strength to remove them or use tools like the Clipdrop cleanup tool to just select and remove them. Misgenerated faces in the background for example can be removed by using AI art web platforms' face restoration features or more advanced techniques such as inpainting for that part of the image.

It can also be used to create high-resolution realistic images of historical figures in realistic or unrealistic settings.

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As just explained, AI generators still have problems with generating faces and other issues. Please keep that in mind since correcting that can require significant skills and may limit the usefulness or realism of the images.

Images can also focus on historical events entirely without any kind of historic character, realistic or not, in the foreground. Examples:

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  Execution of Louis XVI