The Antiqua app icon, a gilt-framed hexagon holding Monet’s water lilies

Art, for the people

A curated gallery, one puzzle at a time.

A cozy puzzle game. A curated gallery. A museum to wander.

Join the waitlist Or wander first ↓

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The Curator Pass

Sign your name and the pass is yours, a real serial № that holds your place in line, stamped admitted and sent to your inbox.

We’ll only email you about Antiqua · no trackers

We’ll write to the moment Antiqua reaches the App Store, planned for .

Yours, Fournier

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The Collection

A museum that keeps opening rooms.

Over four thousand public-domain paintings across every major movement, Renaissance to Ukiyo-e, the Dutch Golden Age to the Hudson River School. Curated for release a collection at a time, with a new room opening every month.

4,400+
Paintings catalogued · and growing
Renaissance packRenaissance
Dutch Golden Age packDutch Golden Age
Baroque packBaroque
Rococo packRococo
British Romanticism packBritish Romanticism
French Romanticism packFrench Romanticism
Realism packRealism
Hudson River School packHudson River School
Renoir & Degas packRenoir & Degas
Post-Impressionists packPost-Impressionists
Pre-Raphaelites packPre-Raphaelites
Symbolism packSymbolism
Still Life packStill Life
Hokusai packHokusai
Hiroshige packHiroshige
Ukiyo-e packUkiyo-e
Ming I packMing · I
Ming II packMing · II
Qing packQing
Ancient & Classical packAncient & Classical

Start free with 10 packs, 60 paintings. Every painting plays at four difficulties, each with its own fact waiting behind it.

The reward

Every solve becomes a card.

Solve the painting and it’s added to your collection, and to your own gallery. The front holds the work in its frame; turn it over for the wall text, the same note you’d find beside it in the museum. Each card takes the colour of its hall. Drag or swipe to turn it.

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.

Fournier
The Curator
An almost-empty museum gallery, Monet’s Water Lilies wrapping the walls, a single bench before them
Monet’s Water Lilies, the room that started it.

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, the National Gallery 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.

The pledge

A portion of every purchase supports museum preservation.

Distribution details and partner museums forthcoming as we formalize our nonprofit relationships.

The coffee jar

A one-person project.

If you want to help keep the lights on, the coffee jar is open.

Buy me a coffee

Questions

Before you sign.

The app is still in development, with release planned for sometime in Q3 2026. We’ll keep you posted on the date, and you can join the beta before then.
Free to start, 10 packs, 60 paintings. A membership opens the full archive and every monthly drop; details at launch. A portion of every purchase goes to museum preservation.
An iPhone. Antiqua is iPhone-only and portrait, a single quiet vertical scroll, built to be picked up for a few minutes at a time.
Yes, every work in the catalogue is in the public domain, sourced from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery and the Rijksmuseum. No filters, no duotone; the paintings are shown as they are.
More than 4,400 paintings catalogued across every major movement, and growing. A new collection opens every month, like a museum adding rooms.
Hello! Made by Jose Fournier. I’m figuring this out as I go, vetting the artwork, writing the collection cards, and answering the emails.
To run the waitlist and send your pass, we store your name and email. If you turn on cloud sync in the app, we’ll also keep a profile so your collection follows you across devices. No third-party trackers, and we never sell your data. Ask us to delete it any time at hello@antiqua.gallery.
iPhone at release. Android may follow depending on demand, I’m one person, looking to expand after launch.
Please do. A movement, a painter, a single painting you’d love to wander into, write to hello@antiqua.gallery. We read every note.
Why not.
A portion of every purchase supports museum preservation. Distribution details and partner museums are forthcoming as we formalize our nonprofit relationships.