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Facsimiles for Aynhoe Park
RH England and Sir John Soane’s Museum (in collaboration with Charles Marsden Smedley) commissioned Factum Foundation to make a series of facsimiles that are part of the restoration and refurbishment...
Facsimile of Bernini’s Salvator Mundi on display in Rome
The Salvator Mundi, Giovan Lorenzo Bernini’s last sculpture and part of the Fondo Edifici di Culto (FEC) of the Italian Ministry of Domestic Affairs, has been on display since April...
The London Bell Foundry: new artist bells in production
A bell commissioned by artist Inés Civile has been approved for installation later this year at the Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) in Uruguay, and is currently in the...
Digital restoration of a lost Banksy
In September 2022, Dover District Council acquired land in and around Bench Street for the purpose of regenerating a derelict part of Dover town centre. The Council had submitted a...
Recording the two Pedro Abad ephebos sculptures
Factum Foundation and IAPH have entered a framework collaboration initiative to help preserve cultural heritage under the care of the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage. The two Roman bronze ephebos...
Capture and Display: ultra-high resolution capture requires ultra-high resolution display
Irene Gaumé, 3D sculptor at Factum Foundation, has led research on how to translate high-resolution relief maps aligned with panoramic composite colour photography to be viewed in real-time 3D rendering....
Falconry manuscript discovered in the University of Lund
As part of its mission to study and popularise the history of falconry, the Middle East Falconry Archive assembles digital copies of Arabic manuscripts which preserve handbooks written centuries ago....
Designing access to knowledge: Massive Change Network visits ARCHiOx
ARCHiVe, based on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and ARCHiOx at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, are both going into their next phase thanks to the generous...
Facsimile of Titian’s portrait of Federico Gonzaga, Ist Duke of Mantua on display at Palazzo Te
As part of the ongoing collaboration between Factum Foundation and Fondazione Palazzo Te, two paintings were recorded in high-resolution to make facsimiles for two major exhibitions in 2023. The first...
Facsimiles of two Raphael Cartoons on display in Vicenza
The facsimiles of St Paul Preaching at Athens and The Sacrifice at Lystra were on display until July 9th 2023 inside the exhibition ‘Raffaello. Nato architetto’, curated by Guido Beltramini,...
Facsimile of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s San Sebastian on display in Rome
For the exhibition ‘L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini’, Factum Foundation has produced a 1:1 facsimile of the San Sebastian (1615) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to be part of...
Recording Vittorio Cini’s collection: an ARCHiVe project
Thanks to the collaboration between the Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s Istituto di Storia dell’Arte and Factum Foundation, a selection of paintings in the Galleria di Palazzo Cini in San Vio, which...
Recording an altarpiece in the Castle of Gabiano
In March 2023 a team from Factum Foundation recorded the St Pieter altarpiece by Nicolò da Voltri in the C15th and originally painted for the monastery church of San Pietro...
Recording the Comares façade in the Alhambra
Factum Foundation with Ana García Bueno and a group of researchers from the Department of Painting at the Universidad de Granada are working together on a research initiative that forms...
The Djehuty Project opens to the public
In 2018, an archaeological mission led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor, unearthed an early Twelfth Dynasty funerary garden in a remarkable state of...
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