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Iconoclastic destruction, mass tourism, war, natural disasters, imperfect restoration and commercial exploitation all pose serious threats to the preservation of many great works of art and culture. From Egypt’s Valley...
Research Lab at Grote Kerk Naarden
Starting August 26, 2024, the Grote Kerk Naarden in the Netherlands becomes a hub of cutting-edge research as it hosts a pioneering 3D scanning and 3D modelling project. For one...
Tactile maps and booklets for the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
As part of the larger initiative ‘PNRR – Piano nazionale ripresa resilienza’, Fondazione Giorgio Cini worked towards a new threshold of accessibility on the grounds of San Giorgio Maggiore. Factum...
The lost model of Ricardo Bofill’s ‘Kafka’s Castle’
For the exhibition ‘Kafka. Making of an Icon’ (May 30 – October 27, 2024), celebrating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, the Bodleian Libraries partnered with Factum Foundation to...
Digitising a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce permission from the Ministry of Culture in Spain to carry out the digitisation of a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, after...
The Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes
In May 2024, alongside a visit to the National Museum by a delegation from the Igbo-Ukwu community, a team from Factum Foundation carried out a training programme for a group...
In Memory of Manuel Franquelo
It is with great sadness and deep admiration that we remember Manuel Franquelo, a genuine artist and someone who understood the nature of representation as a painter, photographer, engineer, poet...
Online photogrammetry workshop for students from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Factum Foundation, in collaboration with ARCHiVe Online Academy, is inviting university students of architecture, archaeology, and heritage conservation to an online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This workshop is...
The Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros
From 1957 to 2007, the entrance to the Warburg Institute, Britain’s most important centre of Renaissance studies, was watched over by a curious guardian: a sculpture of Hermes Kriophoros (ram-bearer)...
Recording the rediscovered ‘Ecce Homo’
Factum Foundation, as part of the Colnaghi & Factum joint venture, is delighted to announce the recording in high resolution of the Ecce Homo recently attributed to Caravaggio. Since 2021, the rediscovered work has...
Research Lab at Grote Kerk Naarden
Starting August 26, 2024, the Grote Kerk Naarden in the Netherlands becomes a hub of cutting-edge research as it hosts a pioneering 3D scanning and 3D modelling project. For one...
Tactile maps and booklets for the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
As part of the larger initiative ‘PNRR – Piano nazionale ripresa resilienza’, Fondazione Giorgio Cini worked towards a new threshold of accessibility on the grounds of San Giorgio Maggiore. Factum...
The lost model of Ricardo Bofill’s ‘Kafka’s Castle’
For the exhibition ‘Kafka. Making of an Icon’ (May 30 – October 27, 2024), celebrating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, the Bodleian Libraries partnered with Factum Foundation to...
Digitising a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce permission from the Ministry of Culture in Spain to carry out the digitisation of a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, after...
The Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes
In May 2024, alongside a visit to the National Museum by a delegation from the Igbo-Ukwu community, a team from Factum Foundation carried out a training programme for a group...
In Memory of Manuel Franquelo
It is with great sadness and deep admiration that we remember Manuel Franquelo, a genuine artist and someone who understood the nature of representation as a painter, photographer, engineer, poet...
Online photogrammetry workshop for students from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Factum Foundation, in collaboration with ARCHiVe Online Academy, is inviting university students of architecture, archaeology, and heritage conservation to an online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This workshop is...
The Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros
From 1957 to 2007, the entrance to the Warburg Institute, Britain’s most important centre of Renaissance studies, was watched over by a curious guardian: a sculpture of Hermes Kriophoros (ram-bearer)...
Recording the rediscovered ‘Ecce Homo’
Factum Foundation, as part of the Colnaghi & Factum joint venture, is delighted to announce the recording in high resolution of the Ecce Homo recently attributed to Caravaggio. Since 2021, the rediscovered work has...
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Viaggio nei laboratori di Factum, dove si creano sorprendenti facsimili dei capolavori dell’arte
The Renaissance reborn: meet the man who recreates masterpieces
The man who found a solution to the museum restitution row… using a 3D scanner
Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus
El Coloso de Constantino revive en Roma: la gran obra de una empresa de Madrid con impresoras 3D
Il Colosso di Costantino, una «magnifica illusione»
El horno árabe que despierta de su letargo
A Virginia Museum Repatriated a Nigerian Sculpture and Received a High-Tech Replica in Return. Could the Exchange Shape Future Restitutions?
US museum returns centuries-old Bakor monolith to Nigeria
Will replicas tempt museums to return looted objects more quickly?
Auras migratoires. Entretien avec Adam Lowe, par Jean-Michel Frodon
Il facsimile salverà l’arte?
New imaging tool confirms female scribe etched her name in medieval manuscript
