About
Made by one person, for the people.
Who makes Antiqua, why it exists, and where a portion of every purchase goes.
From the Maker
I’ve spent most of my life teaching myself things, looking for any sort of creative outlet, cooking, photography, chess, a reading list I’ll never get to the end of. Art ended up at the center of it all. The first time I saw Monet’s water lilies in person, it stopped me cold. I had a mostly empty exhibit to myself, time to just sit with it and enjoy.
That’s really all this is. It started as a passion project for me to learn more about art, and slowly more and more friends and family asked for an app. So the idea is simple: you rebuild a masterpiece piece by piece, and once it’s whole you learn a little about who made it and why it stood the test of time. The art is public domain, the enjoyment is free.
So grab a seat, grab a hexagon, and enjoy.
The Mission
Art, for the people.
These paintings are public domain, given freely by the institutions that preserved them. Antiqua’s job is to give something back: a reciprocal chain that runs from the old art to the museums that kept it, and forward to the artists still making the new.
All public domain
Every painting is free to begin with, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum. No paywalled masterpieces.
Back to the museums
A portion of what Antiqua earns flows back to the institutions that preserved the old art so the rest of us could meet it.
Forward to living artists
And onward to working artists and community programs, the chain that keeps art being made.
A portion of every purchase supports museum preservation.
Distribution details and partner museums forthcoming as we formalize our nonprofit relationships.
A one-person project.
If you want to help keep the lights on, the coffee jar is open.
Buy me a coffee