Case Study
Bringing Lost Artwork Back to Life With Blockchain and AI Technology
AI Vanguard Art was founded to recreate previously destroyed masterpiece paintings, based on meticulous analysis of historical records, art documentation and advanced techniques. As the organization progressed with recreating the Titian Julius Caesar painting, the first of the Twelve Caesars lost in a fire at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid in 1734, its founders engaged FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets experts to support the project with blockchain infrastructure and creation of a non-fungible token for the artworks.
Situation
AI Vanguard Art’s initiative of recreating authentic masterpieces physically and digitally requires a novel combination of expertise and technical capability and infrastructure across art history, fine art, research, restoration, appraisal, machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.
In addition to the painstaking, eight years of work and advanced AI tools involved in developing the Julius Caesar, AI Vanguard Art needed to implement a secure, traceable and verifiable framework for the physical paintings once they were completed and ready for appraisal and auction. The organization also planned to issue NFTs for each of the artworks, providing a digital certificate of ownership secured on a blockchain.
Our Role
FTI Technology’s Blockchain & Digital Assets team was engaged in the early stages of AI Vanguard Art’s work to resurrect the first of the Twelve Caesars, to provide technical development and advisory. The work included:
- Education and guidance to the AI Vanguard Art in selecting and designing the necessary blockchain components to support the organization’s unique needs.
- Support in establishing infrastructure for security and provenance for the artworks’ records of origin, ownership and transaction history.
- Creation of smart contracts to enable traceability and tokenization.
- Establishment of NFTs and digital copies for art enthusiasts and collectors to verify their ownership of one-of-a-kind artwork.
Our Impact
FTI Technology’s work with AI Vanguard Art is ongoing. To date, the organization has completed the physical restoration of Titian’s Julius Caesar and minted a corresponding NFT authenticity token on Ethereum for it.
The Julius Caesar and additional pieces in the Twelve Caesar series that are undergoing recreation are now supported by multi-layer security protocols and blockchain verification. FTI Technology helped AI Vanguard Art ensure provenance and security for end-to-end authenticity.