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ARCHiOX
ARCHiOx (Analysing and Recording Cultural Heritage in Oxford) is an exciting new project partnership between the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford and the Factum Foundation, generously funded by The Helen...
Recording the Mausoleum of Ikhwat Yusuf with ARCE
The Mausoleum of Ikhwat Yusuf is a Fatimid monument with later Ottoman additions located in Cairo’s Southern Cemetery at the foot of the Mokattam outcrop. The mausoleum is one of...
Recording 15th-century tapestries at the Giorgio Cini Collection
ARCHiVe has completed the first high-resolution digital recording of one of the great tapestries owned by the Giorgio Cini collection: The Entry into Palestine of the Army of Vespasian. Dated...
Recording the Dabous Giraffe
In February 2022, Factum Foundation accompanied the Trust for African Rock Art on a project to record the Dabous Giraffe, located in the Aïr mountains in the north-east of Niger....
Recreation of leather wallpaper at Palazzo Te
Factum Arte and Factum Foundation have worked with Fondazione Palazzo Te to recreate the atmosphere that once welcomed the guests of the Gonzaga family for the visitors of the exhibition...
The bronze potraits of Michelangelo
Daniele da Volterra, a close collaborator and friend of Michelangelo, inherited the house of the artist in Rome after his death. In two years, he produced a number of bronze...
Mantova: l’Arte di Vivere: projects with Fondazione Palazzo Te
Factum Foundation and Fondazione Palazzo Te have partnered up to carry out a vast high-resolution digitisation project inside three rooms within Palazzo Te. The palace, built as a place of...
Recording in AlUla: successful completion of Phase 1
Factum Foundation and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) are delighted to announce that the first phase of their collaboration is now complete. The largest high-resolution 3D recording project ever...
20 years of work in Egypt
By the end of this year, we will have succeeded in carrying out the largest high-resolution recording project ever undertaken. We have recorded the vast majority of the tomb of...
New recording in the Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo
Following conversations about the extraordinary painting of the Crucifixion of St Andrew with Dean Yoder, Conservator of Paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art where the original hangs, a copy...
Let there be light: AALTOSIILO updates
No longer a building for storing woodchips, the Silo is now an extraordinary piece of sculpture. Since July, Valentino Tignanelli and the team in Finland have cleared, cleaned and secured...
BBC Radio 4: On the Elgin Marbles
On December 14, Factum Foundation’s founder Adam Lowe participated in an interview with archaeologist Gillian Hovell following Stephen Fry’s statement on the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Lowe...
Angel heads from Max Klinger’s Beethoven monument
Symbolist artist Max Klinger first conceived his monument to Ludwig van Beethoven around 1885-86, when he was still a student in Paris. The idea is reported to have come to...
Recording El Greco in Cleveland
In November 2021 a team from Factum Foundation carried out the recording of the Crucifixion by El Greco within the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Both the...
3D model of the Aalto Silo
The AALTOSIILO team is delighted to announce that the 3D model of the Aalto Siilo has been completed in collaboration with the Arctic Drone Labs (at Oulu University of Applied...
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