Provenance intelligence

Every artwork
carries its history. We make it visible.

Arts & Artifacts traces the ownership chain of any artwork — cross-checking museum collections, cultural archives, and loss registries — and emits a provenance passport with a transparent, rule-based confidence score.

Verify an artwork See how it works →
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Free public sources
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Paid APIs required
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Ways to search
How it works
01
Identify

Type what you know, upload a photo, or use the camera on-site. Gemini Vision reads the image and fills in the form.

Gemini free tier
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Research

Tavily searches authoritative domains — Interpol, UNESCO, the Art Loss Register, Lost Art, the FBI, IFAR, and major auction houses — for provenance and looting alerts.

Tavily
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Ground

The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, Europeana, Wikipedia, and Wikidata's structured facts corroborate and fill in exact dates.

No-key APIs
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The Passport

A signed record with timeline, risk flags, and a confidence score computed by a fixed, published algorithm — never by the AI.

Deterministic scoring

Verify provenance
of any artwork.

Type what you know, or point a camera at the piece. The agent finds the rest — and flags what cannot be verified.

optional — auto-fills the form below
Selected artwork
Identifying image with Gemini Vision…
Agent running
Researching provenance and looting alerts tavily · interpol · art loss register · lost art
Querying museum collections the met · art institute of chicago · moma
Checking cultural archives, encyclopedic and structured records europeana · wikipedia · wikidata
Synthesizing the provenance timeline gemini
Scoring confidence and signing the passport deterministic algorithm
Why it matters
The problem

The art market is one of the world's largest unregulated asset classes.

Ownership history is scattered across museum records, sale catalogues, and registries that rarely talk to each other.

The signal

Custody gaps, missing records, valuation anomalies.

A decade with no documented owner. A price with no comparable. Each is reported as an explicit, sourced fact — not smoothed over.

The passport

A cited record with a transparent score.

The confidence score is computed by a fixed, published rule set from the facts gathered — never guessed by the AI.