The Gallery

Each exhibit is a window into what was lost — reconstructed through AI-assisted research and presented with the care of a museum placard.

140 exhibits in the collection

Mani's Living Gospel and Canonical Writings — exhibit imageText

Mani's Living Gospel and Canonical Writings

Mani (Manes, Manichaeus)

The seven major works of Mani, founder of Manichaeism — one of the most successful world religions from the 3rd to 14th centuries. His canon included the Living Gospel (Evangelion), the Treasure of Life, the Pragmateia, the Book of Mysteries, the Book of Giants, the Letters, and the Psalms and Prayers. All survive only in fragments.

Reconstruction Confidence15%

Lost c. 5th–14th century AD

The Gospel of Eve — exhibit imageText

The Gospel of Eve

Unknown (attributed to Gnostic communities)

A Gnostic text attributed to the Borborite (or Phibionite) sect of early Christianity, known only through hostile quotations by the 4th-century heresiologist Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion. The text apparently described mystical visions and esoteric teachings attributed to Eve.

Reconstruction Confidence5%

Lost c. 4th–5th century AD

Livy's Ab Urbe Condita — Lost Books — exhibit imageText

Livy's Ab Urbe Condita — Lost Books

Titus Livius (Livy)

Of the 142 books of Livy's monumental history of Rome from its founding to 9 BC, only 35 survive complete (Books 1–10 and 21–45). The lost 107 books covered over 700 years of Roman history, including the Punic Wars' aftermath, the Social War, Sulla's dictatorship, Caesar's campaigns, and the fall of the Republic.

Reconstruction Confidence20%

Lost c. 4th–6th century AD

Sappho's Complete Poems — exhibit imageText

Sappho's Complete Poems

Sappho of Lesbos

The full poetic output of Sappho of Lesbos, one of the greatest lyric poets of antiquity. The Alexandrian scholars collected her work into nine books (approximately 10,000 lines). Only one complete poem and roughly 650 lines of fragments survive — about 7% of her known output.

Reconstruction Confidence10%

Lost c. 7th–12th century AD

Aristotle's Lost Dialogues — exhibit imageText

Aristotle's Lost Dialogues

Aristotle

The early, published works of Aristotle, written in dialogue form during his time at Plato's Academy. Ancient critics considered these works literary masterpieces rivalling Plato's own dialogues. Cicero praised their "golden stream of eloquence." Only fragments and titles survive.

Reconstruction Confidence15%

Lost c. 3rd–6th century AD

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (Rembrandt) — exhibit imageArt

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (Rembrandt)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt's only known seascape, depicting Christ calming the storm from the Gospel of Mark. A dramatically composed scene of terror and faith aboard a small fishing boat being overwhelmed by a violent sea. Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

Reconstruction Confidence70%

Lost 18 March 1990

The Wounded Table (Frida Kahlo) — exhibit imageArt

The Wounded Table (Frida Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo

Kahlo's largest painting, a monumental work depicting the artist seated at a long table flanked by a skeleton, a Judas figure, pre-Columbian idols, a deer, and her niece and nephew. Last exhibited in Warsaw in 1955 and subsequently lost.

Reconstruction Confidence50%

Lost c. 1955

Girl with Balloon (Banksy, partially shredded) — exhibit imageArt

Girl with Balloon (Banksy, partially shredded)

Banksy

A spray-paint and acrylic work by anonymous street artist Banksy, depicting a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. The artwork famously self-destructed moments after being sold at Sotheby's auction for £1.04 million, passing through a hidden shredder built into the frame.

Reconstruction Confidence95%

Lost 5 October 2018

Suprematist Composition (Malevich, stolen 2003) — exhibit imageArt

Suprematist Composition (Malevich, stolen 2003)

Kazimir Malevich

A 1916 Suprematist painting by Kazimir Malevich featuring geometric shapes in primary colours on a white ground. Part of the Stedelijk Museum's important Malevich collection, it was sold under disputed circumstances in 2003.

Reconstruction Confidence80%

Lost 2008

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (Van Gogh) — exhibit imageArt

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (Van Gogh)

Vincent van Gogh

A self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh showing himself walking along a sunlit road near Arles, carrying his painting equipment. The painting was a vivid expression of van Gogh's identification with the working painter under the Provençal sun.

Reconstruction Confidence75%

Lost 1945

Portrait of Francis Bacon (Lucian Freud) — exhibit imageArt

Portrait of Francis Bacon (Lucian Freud)

Lucian Freud

A small oil painting by Lucian Freud depicting his friend and fellow painter Francis Bacon, stolen from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1988. One of two known portraits Freud painted of Bacon, and a key document of their intense artistic friendship.

Reconstruction Confidence80%

Lost 1988

Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland) — exhibit imageArt

Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland)

Graham Sutherland

A full-length portrait of Winston Churchill commissioned by both Houses of Parliament and presented to Churchill on his 80th birthday in 1954. Churchill loathed the painting, and it was secretly destroyed on his wife Clementine's orders.

Reconstruction Confidence90%

Lost c. 1955–1956

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