DaVinciFace is a web application developed in Florence, Italy, that turns a photograph of a human face into an artwork that looks like it came out of a Renaissance workshop. The underlying engine is a generative adversarial network with more than 500 million trained parameters, which studies the geometry of the uploaded face and re-paints it using the palette, lighting and texture conventions associated with Leonardo da Vinci's portraits. Processing typically completes in roughly two to three minutes, and the result is delivered as a downloadable image.
The service is deliberately narrow rather than a general-purpose image editor. There is a small gallery of example results, a short FAQ, and a single creative output: a DaVinci-styled portrait. Free generations are watermarked with the DaVinciFace logo, and removing that watermark requires purchasing the high-resolution version of the portrait. Commercial use of the free output is not permitted, and the company states that uploaded photos are held only as long as needed to finish the render and are then deleted.
DaVinciFace is built and operated by Mathema, a software company based in Florence, and the software is registered with SIAE, the Italian authors' and publishers' association. It is best treated as a novelty gift-and-fun product rather than a professional design suite: the appeal lies in how faithfully a modern selfie is converted into an old-master aesthetic.
