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

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio) — exhibit imageArt

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

A large altarpiece by Caravaggio for the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, depicting the Nativity scene with Saints Francis and Lawrence. Stolen in 1969, it is one of the most valuable missing artworks in the world, valued at an estimated $20 million at the time of theft.

Reconstruction Confidence55%

Lost October 1969

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Madonna with Four Saints (Giovanni Bellini)

Giovanni Bellini

A large sacra conversazione by Giovanni Bellini from the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, later held in Berlin. One of Bellini's most important late altarpieces, destroyed in the Friedrichshain flak tower fire in 1945 alongside hundreds of other masterworks.

Reconstruction Confidence70%

Lost May 1945

The Death of St. Peter Martyr (Titian) — exhibit imageArt

The Death of St. Peter Martyr (Titian)

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

An altarpiece by Titian for the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, considered by contemporaries to be his supreme masterpiece. The painting depicted the assassination of the Dominican inquisitor Peter of Verona in a forest, combining dramatic violence with sublime landscape.

Reconstruction Confidence75%

Lost 16 August 1867

The Stone Breakers — exhibit imageArt

The Stone Breakers

Gustave Courbet

A large oil painting by Gustave Courbet depicting two labourers — one old, one young — breaking rocks on a roadside. Considered a founding work of the Realist movement and one of the most socially radical paintings of the 19th century.

Reconstruction Confidence85%

Lost February 1945

The Just Judges (Ghent Altarpiece panel) — exhibit imageArt

The Just Judges (Ghent Altarpiece panel)

Jan van Eyck (and possibly Hubert van Eyck)

The lower-left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, depicting a procession of judges and rulers on horseback riding toward the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Stolen from Saint Bavo's Cathedral in 1934 and never recovered.

Reconstruction Confidence40%

Lost 1934

Jurisprudence (Klimt University Painting) — exhibit imageArt

Jurisprudence (Klimt University Painting)

Gustav Klimt

The third and most radical of Klimt's University of Vienna ceiling paintings. Rather than celebrating the triumph of law, Jurisprudence depicted a frail old man ensnared by a monstrous octopus symbolising the legal system, surrounded by the Furies. It was Klimt's darkest and most confrontational work.

Reconstruction Confidence60%

Lost May 1945

Medicine (Klimt University Painting) — exhibit imageArt

Medicine (Klimt University Painting)

Gustav Klimt

The second of Klimt's three University of Vienna ceiling paintings. Medicine depicted a column of suffering humanity alongside the figure of Hygieia, goddess of health, holding the serpent of Asclepius. The only University Painting partially preserved in a colour photograph.

Reconstruction Confidence65%

Lost May 1945

Philosophy (Klimt University Painting) — exhibit imageArt

Philosophy (Klimt University Painting)

Gustav Klimt

One of three controversial ceiling paintings commissioned from Gustav Klimt for the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. The painting depicted a column of intertwined nude figures representing humanity adrift in the cosmos, a radical departure from the academic allegory expected by the university.

Reconstruction Confidence60%

Lost May 1945

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