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New video: Recording ‘An Old Woman Cooking Eggs’ by Diego Velázquez

On the 4th and 5th February 2020, a team from Factum Foundation carried out the high-resolution digitisation in 3D and colour of An Old Woman Cooking Eggs at the National...
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Recording Van Dyck at Wilton House

Before the shutdown of museums in the UK, a team from Factum Foundation was in the process of recording Anthony van Dyck’s Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, with his...
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1/2/3 May 2020: Online discussions organised by The Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation, with Il Giornale dell’Arte

The three, 80-minute, online discussions brought together contributors to Factum Foundation’s new book, The Aura in The Age of Digital Materiality – Rethinking Preservation in the Shadow of an Uncertain...
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Greenlight on renovation works for Casa Natal de Velázquez and next steps

On June 10th, the urban planning committee at Seville’s city council authorised the beginning of construction works that will create the Casa Natal de Velázquez, an interpretation centre inside the...
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Progress following the recording in Easter Island: the eye of the Moai?

In early March, a team of photogrammetry and LiDAR experts from Factum Foundation travelled to Easter Island at the suggestion of Francisco Torres Hochstetter, to start a high-resolution recording initiative...
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Preliminary research and diagnostics begin on The Assumption of Mary and Saints

The winner of Bando Lucida 2020, The Assumption of Mary and Saints attributed to the workshops of Sandro Botticelli, in the Monumental Complex of Pilotta in Parma has been recorded...
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Chief Sylvanus “Orlando” Akong

1953-2020 It is with great sadness that Factum Foundation reports the passing of Chief Sylvanus Akong, known to his friends as Orlando, and recognised by all as a friend of...
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New video available: A quick guide to Factum’s multi-layered browsers

Factum Foundation has developed a multi-layered browser that enables the visualisation of the 3D scanned relief data, as well as the colour data of digitised artifacts, at an extremely high...
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The Materiality of the Aura. New Technologies for Preservation

On the second floor of Palazzo Fava, as part of the exhibition The Revealed Masterpiece that celebrates the return to Bologna of the Polittico Griffoni, visitors will be able to...
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Photogrammetry training with two students from Saudi Arabia in collaboration with RCU and Art Jameel

In November 2019, two students from Saudi Arabia, Jawharah Albalawi and Abdulrahim Sugair, started a two-week photogrammetry training in Factum Foundation’s headquarters in Madrid. The training was the second step...
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New recording on Isla de Pascua

In early March, a team from Factum Foundation travelled to Easter Island to collaborate on a series of projects with the Museo Antropológico Sebastián Englert. The first items to be...
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New publication available: The Aura in the Age of Digital Materiality. Rethinking preservation in the shadow of an uncertain future

This publication focuses on Factum Foundation’s work to promote the use of high-resolution recording, digital restoration and creative re-materialisation while bringing into focus the changing attitudes towards owning, sharing, preserving...
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New film about recording Malevich’s Black Square

The Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) has produced a short film about how recording Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) with Factum Foundation is helping conservators and researchers find out more about what...
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New discovery in Tutankhamun’s tomb

A team of archaeologists led by former Egyptian minister of antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty, while conducting a radar survey over the area surrounding Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings,...
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Facsimile of Djehuty funerary garden has been installed in Luxor

The facsimile of the Djehuty Garden, commissioned by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to be part of the protective framework built to safeguard the original in Luxor, has been...
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