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Arte TV: Europe Time Machine, Historical Sites in Danger
Factum’s founder Adam Lowe was interviewed for a new mini-series by Arte TV about the Europe Time Machine (ETM), a project to use machine learning and big data technology to...
Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
A new film and website have been created as part of the ongoing campaign to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Gavin Kingcome’s short film contains interviews with different people affected...
Developing new technologies for 3D scanning
Factum Foundation is constantly looking for new ways to record accurate information of the surface of paintings. Currently in development is the photometric scanner, a fast, portable system that will...
New successes for the church bell foundry at Whitechapel
On December 10th two 6kg bells were cast at UCL’s Here East facility by Peter Scully, technical director at the Bartlett, and a team of four students. The event employed...
Digitisation workshop with students from ISIA Urbino
Carlos Bayod, Guendalina Damone and Otto Lowe from Factum Foundation’s 3D scanning department organised and taught a five-day workshop focussing on non-contact recording technologies for cultural heritage to ten students...
A late-15th-century altarpiece by the Maestro de Perea
Factum Foundation is collaborating with Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli on a new digital preservation project involving the surface and colour recording of a late-15th-century altarpiece known as the Retablo...
A 3D scan of Fra Angelico’s Annunciation
Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation (1425-26) depicts on the one hand the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to the Virgin and on the other the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. In...
Open call for the new edition of Bando Lucida 2019
Last year, Factum Foundation co-hosted the Open Care conference alongside the Italian art restoration experts at their Milanese laboratory, marking the second edition of the Bando Lucida initiative. This scheme...
Madame de Pompadour in the Frame: An exhibition at Waddesdon Manor
Factum Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with the Rothschild Foundation at Waddesdon Manor on an exhibition exploring the new perspectives which facsimiles can provide on existing works of art....
Recording “The Circle” Stradivari with the Lucida 3D Laser Scanner
Factum Foundation is collaborating with luthiers Julia Sarano and Robert Brewer Young on a pilot project to create a unique 3D study of a rare violin, with a precision measured...
Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
We need your help! The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was the oldest continuous manufacturing business in Great Britain until its closure in 2017, a history of traditional bell casting that stretched...
Digital and physical reconstruction of the vandalised sacred cave of Kamukuwaká
The cave of Kamukuwaká, an important sacred petroglyph site representing the cosmogony of the inhabitants of Upper-Xingu (Mato Grosso, Brasil) and registered national monument was intentionally destroyed in 2018. Culture...
Training at Stoppelaëre House
Since February 2019, the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative’s training programme is ongoing at Stoppelaëre House, at the entrance of the Valley of the Kings. Entirely funded by the Factum Foundation...
Parmigianino’s ‘Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror’
Factum Foundation was asked to create a facsimile of this work for MUMOK’s exhibition ‘Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520 –1970’ (25 May – 26 October 2019);...
Facsimile of a ceiling by Giuseppe Salviati installed at the Palazzo Grimani
A sixteenth-century circular ceiling canvas painted by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta) for the Palazzo Grimani in Venice has been re-materialised as a facsimile and installed in its original location. The...
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