The Daily Telegraph

Your face is a picture – thanks to Google app

- By Hannah Furness

arts correspond­ent

MANY have dreamed of being compared to the timeless beauty of the Mona Lisa, and brave members of the public now have their chance, so long as they are willing to take the risk of being likened to someone altogether less flattering.

The Google Arts & Culture app matches modern-day faces with their doppelgang­ers in fine art history.

Many of those trying it were left amused as the app, only available in the US, matched them with wildly different, though visually similar, portraits in which they can change gender or age decades, with results being shared on social media.

 ??  ?? One result, likened to Antonio Donghi’s Woman at the Café
One result, likened to Antonio Donghi’s Woman at the Café

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