News Archive

August 26, 2024

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...
READ MORE

September 26, 2024

‘Maps are too exciting! Digital innovations in cartography’: a Sunderland Collection Symposium in association with ARCHiOx and Bodleian Libraries

Thursday 10 October 2024 –  10am–4pm (BST) – At the Weston Library and online – Free, booking required Technologies continuously evolve transforming the representation of space and geography, shaping new...
READ MORE

July 30, 2024

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...
READ MORE

June 24, 2024

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...
READ MORE

May 30, 2024

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...
READ MORE

September 17, 2024

AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy 2024

At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the new year at AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy has already started with the new modules on ‘Access to image-based resources in the context of the...
READ MORE

July 16, 2024

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...
READ MORE

June 26, 2024

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...
READ MORE

May 28, 2024

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...
READ MORE

June 24, 2024

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)...
READ MORE

May 27, 2024

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...
READ MORE

April 25, 2024

New donations to Strawberry Hill House

Two new facsimiles of paintings are now on display at Strawberry Hill House. In total there are now about 35 facsimiles by Factum in Strawberry Hill House helping to make...
READ MORE

May 14, 2024

‘Prints, Plates & Pixels’ at the Weston Library, Oxford

The exhibition ‘Prints, Plates & Pixels’ (May 16th – August 18th, 2024) curated by Chiara Betti, offers a new perspective on heritage objects at the Weston Library, part of the...
READ MORE

April 26, 2024

Boxed set of Factum Foundation’s main publications for every €1000 donation

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...
READ MORE
MORE ON: Resources

March 23, 2024

‘The Poetics of Fire and Earth’: an exhibition in Úbeda

For over 2 years, Factum Foundation worked with Melchor Tito Sr. and Melchor Tito Jr., a family of potters, on a project to revive and fire a traditional Arabic kiln...
READ MORE

Showing 1-15 of 295 results