Primitives

Culture.

About this app

GIVING MEANING TO EVERY JOURNEY
✦ Don't miss masterpieces when you travel.
✦ Give purpose to your travels.
✦ Collect all seen paintings in your collection.

THE ART. THE MAP. THE EXPERIENCE.
✦ Primitives connects you to the sublime.
✦ Primitives is your digital compass to the 15th century, guiding you to the paintings of the Flemish Primitives—wherever you are.
✦ Rediscover the Northern Renaissance—an era of unrivaled beauty, humanism, and technical excellence.

NOISELESS DISCOVERY

✦ Near You: Open the app. Find the closest works. Plan a visit in minutes.
✦ Global Scale: From chapels in Bruges to major collections in New York—mapped and searchable.
✦ Pure Aesthetics: A clean, curated database built for art lovers.

FEATURED ARTISTS

✦ Rogier van der Weyden
✦ Robert Campin
✦ Dieric Bouts
✦ Jan van Eyck
... And more to come.

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Brought to you by Culture. Built for the love of painting. No ads. No noise. Just art.

What’s new

What’s new in Primitives 1.5

Art trivia — guess the painter, build a streak!
Google and Apple sign-in
Collection milestones
Museums sorted by distance; nearby ping within 400 m
Seen progress, visit notes, and a journal
Offline catalog (works inside musuems!), and force update catalog in Settings (also checks every 48 hours)
Deep links, refined Settings
Android 16 (API 36); more reliable Google sign-in; launch freeze fixed

Thank you to travel with Primitives!