OpenAI's new image generator is genuinely remarkable--far superior to its oft-clunky, hallucination-prone predecessor. Based on only a few prompts, it produced more or less my dream cover design for my next book on Sully, Richelieu and Mazarin (drawing on 3 famous sculptures)
Along with more or less historically accurate Renaissance-style paintings of key episodes in each statesman's life--for example Sully's commanding of an artillery detachment at the battle of Coutras, or riding into battle wth Henri IV at Ivry.
Mar 26, 2025 19:43Cardinal Richelieu at the siege of la Rochelle, and Mazarin (then a young papal envoy) riding in-between the Spanish and French armies in a desperate bid to prevent further bloodshed at the battle of Casale.
And then, perhaps my favorite, a distraught young Louis XIV at the deathbed of his mentor, godfather, and substitute father, Cardinal Mazarin.
