UNMASKING THE MASTERPIECE: How I Leveraged Semantic AI to Decode 5,000 Years of Art History

AUTHOR: Rahul Atram INSTITUTION: SGGS Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nanded DATE: 19 April 2026 THE MOMENT OF DISCOVERY It was a quiet Sunday evening in Nanded, the kind of evening where the air is still and the mind begins to wander. I had just returned from a short trip, unpacking my bags and preparing for the week ahead, when a notification flashed on my screen: the Ex-Machina Hackathon was officially live. The challenge was unique—classify thousands of years of human art history