News Archive
Factum Foundation and RCU: final phase
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce that the project to record the Nabataean, Dadanite and Lihyanite heritage in the AlUla oasis in high-resolution 3D and colour is in its final...
Bishop Auckland: work for the Spanish Gallery is almost complete
Yeserías (carved plaster decorations) are the embodiment of the co-habitation of Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in Spain. A number of yeserías were recorded in high-resolution throughout 2020 and 2021,...
Factum and Colnaghi: recording a 16th century tapestry
Factum Foundation and Colnaghi are developing an increasingly close relationship. This month we have completed the full colour and 3D recording of both sides of an important tapestry by Pieter...
Recording in Venice: Titian’s La Sapienza
For the exhibition ‘Tizians Frauenbild’ (5 October 2021 – 16 January 2022) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, Factum Foundation carried out the recording of Titian’s La Sapienza (c. 1560) at...
AI, Tech Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: an international symposium in Toledo
From the 18th-19th June 2021, a symposium was held to discuss the use and application of advanced technologies in conflict and peacebuilding contexts. Organized by the Instituto de Resolución de...
The AALTOSIILO Project
Factum Foundation’s new project is the restoration and reuse of the Silo at the Toppila Pulp Mill (on the left of this image). Alvar and Aino Aalto’s Silo was a...
Latest Article: Interview: Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on Preserving the Bakor Monoliths
Kate Fitz Gibbon from Cultural Property News interviewed Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on the challenge to identify and preserve the Bakor Monoliths, and on the projects on rock art...
Secretary of State permits boutique hotel on historic Whitechapel Bell Foundry site
It is with great sadness that we announce the outcome of the Planning Inquiry around the Church Bell Foundry in Whitechapel. Our sadness is really focused on the values that...
Tutankhamun 2022
Next year is the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his team. Factum’s 3D and colour data, recorded in 2009, is in...
Recording the Young Knight in a Landscape in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
As part of a new collaboration between the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Factum Foundation, our experts just completed the recording of the Young Knight in a Landscape (1510) by Vittore Carpaccio,...
On The Guardian: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory
‘The final decision about the future of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry now rests with the secretary of state, and is expected in the coming week.’ The latest article on the...
Polittico Griffoni facsimile installed in Bologna
After the closing of the exhibition ‘La riscoperta di un capolavoro’ at Palazzo Fava, the facsimile of the Polittico Griffoni remained in the city of Bologna and was installed in...
The Raphael Cartoons at the V&A: the digital content is now available
On January 25 2021, the V&A launched a new online platform where the data from the Raphael Cartoons, recorded by Factum Foundation in high-resolution 3D, colour and infrared, was made...
Adam Lowe on Benvenuto Cellini’s Crucifixion
In his podcast ‘Blood and Bronze’ on BBC Radio, Jerry Brotton reveals how the Renaissance was a time of conflict as well as beauty, creativity and tyranny, by retracing the...
The Toledo International Platform on Cultural Heritage and conflict resolution
Factum Foundation welcomes the adoption of the EU Concept on Cultural Heritage in crisis and conflict, an important step in a new approach in mediation and conflict resolution. Stakeholders working...
Showing 211-225 of 405 results