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‘Applying Technology: Preserving the Past… Informing the Present’ by Adam Lowe
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Fundación Gondra Barandiarán and the Universidad de Deusto are presenting the first edition of the summer course “Museographies. Ways of seeing art”. Taking place...
Adam Lowe’s Talk at UNESCO’s ReACH Conference
In May 2017, UNESCO launched the ReACH (Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage) initiative, a program aiming at engaging in a global conversation with museums and heritage communities to discuss...
Powhatan’s Mantle is the Object of the Month at the Ashmolean Museum
In June, the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford nominated the Powhatan’s Mantle object of the month. This leather, shell and sinew piece is one of the oldest and most important artefacts...
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
An innovative cartographic model of Middle-earth is exhibited at the Bodleian Library’s exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth from June, 1st – October, 28th. The exhibition comprises drawings and notes made...
The Wedding at Cana’s facsimile case at the Biennale di Architettura
The facsimile of The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese, produced by Factum Arte, is part of the cases selected by the Venice Pavilion at the Biennale di Architettura 2018....
Recording Wenzel Jamnitzer’s Bell
In June 2018, a team from Factum Foundation has started working at the British Museum to record one of Wenzel Jamnitzer’s most important works: a decorative bell produced in the...
Analysis and Recording of Cultural Heritage in Venice
On May 28th, the Analysis and Recording of Cultural Heritage in Venice centre was launched in its new space on the island of San Giorgio. Triggered by the vision of...
Bando Lucida 2019, presented by Open Care and Factum Foundation
On the 29th January, 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....
Toponyms in the Book of Roger
Aliaa Ismail, an egyptologist and Arabic speaker, is studying the toponyms in the 12th century map compiled by the Muslim cartographer Al-Idrisi from travel accounts collected in Sicily at the...
Reconstructing a monument by Antonio Canova
Pedro Miro and Otto Lowe recorded the plaster fragments of an equestrian statue of Ferdinand IV made by Antonio Canova in 1806. The fragments of the monument are conserved at...
Joining forces to combat the destruction of Antiquities
As a member of the core research team, the Factum Foundation has participated in all the Reach roundtables. The Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage Project (ReACH) was a research...
Facsimile of a Raphael
Factum Foundation is producing a facsimile of Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (c. 1514-1516) by Raphael. The painting was a commission for the altar in Santa Maria dello...
The Tomb of Cardinal Tavera
In its first collaboration with Fundación Casa Ducal Medinaceli, Factum Foundation is sending a team to record the Tomb of Cardinal Tavera, carved in Carrara marble by Alonso Berruguete (1488-1561)...
Ikom Monoliths: Paris & Brussels
Next week, Factum Foundation will be travelling to Paris and Brussels to record two fine examples of Ikom monoliths in the collections of the Musée Quai Branly and gallery Didier...
Recording Murillo in Seville
In February and March 2018, Factum Foundation digitised two large paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo – The Miracle of the Fish and Bread and Moses drawing water from the rock...
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