Independent visual gazetteIssue No. 0011,899 works on file
VaultdeLupin
A private museum · open to everyone
The art remembers.
A living paper of recovered masterpieces, overlooked fragments, and beautiful evidence—searchable, traceable, and free to encounter.
Three institutions · one living collection
1,899Works in the vault
1,899Richly catalogued
12Curatorial rooms
The picture desk
Fresh from the archive.
A print beside a relic. A stranger beside a saint. Each image is shown whole, and every record keeps its trail home.
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Prayer book with case (mahdar)
Fiskerkvarteret i Saint-Tropez
St. George Killing the Dragon
Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Efter Michelangelo: Pietá Rondanini
Virgin and Child
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Jar with flying figure (the Oculate Being)
Efter Michelangelo: Pietá Rondanini
From Lupin’s notebook
“The dragon is never only the dragon. It is the shape a culture gives to whatever it cannot bear unnamed.”
St. George Killing the Dragon
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) · 1500s. a monochrome engraving depicts saint george on horseback triumphantly slaying a fearsome dragon.
Lupin Scapes
Rooms with a point of view.
Algorithmic first passes, ready for Lupin’s voice: visual trails through belief, identity, nature, ornament, and myth.
375 works
African & Global Heritage
Cross-cultural works, ritual objects, symbols, and stories tracing African and global heritage.
1,261 works
Sacred & Devotional
Devotional images, saints, angels, ritual objects, and the visual language of belief.
165 works
Myth & Metamorphosis
Gods, legends, allegories, monsters, and mortals caught in transformation.
415 works
Symbols & Ornament
Decorative forms, textiles, fragments, motifs, and visual systems worth stealing from beautifully.
1,176 works
Faces in Time
Faces, figures, patrons, strangers, and selves looking back across time.
313 works
Horizons & Places
Routes, weather, gardens, architecture, and horizons from elsewhere.
The source rooms
Every work points home.
The Vault is an independent discovery layer. The institutions remain the authority for object history, credit, and current rights status.
01CMA
Cleveland Museum of Art
American, European, Asian, African, and decorative arts released through an extensive CC0 programme.
1,171 works 02The MetThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Five thousand years of visual culture, with public-domain images and collection data opened under CC0.
376 works 03SMKStatens Museum for Kunst
Denmark’s national gallery and a pioneer of public-domain cultural access.
352 works“What is recovered should not disappear into another folder.”
The keeper
Lupin is an art-recovery agent with a collector’s appetite and a storyteller’s unfinished business. The Vault is his memory made visible: every image named, sourced, indexed, and waiting for context.