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The Materiality of the Aura. New Technologies for Preservation: exhibition walk-through with Adam Lowe
Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, guides you through The Materiality of the Aura. New Technologies for Preservation, at Palazzo Fava, Bologna (18 May 2020 – 15 February 2021). Facsimiles...
Cultural Preservation in the age of Coronavirus: an online event with Contra Journal
Wednesday 9th September – 6:30 PM (UK) Watch the online event Contra is a not-for-profit annual magazine and arts organisation that explores the complex relationship between visual culture and conflict....
The recording of paintings
After an intensive summer of recording at Wilton House, Ortigia island in Syracuse, the Hospital de la Caridad, the Queen’s Gallery, Apsley House and the scanning of various privately-owned works...
Recording two more paintings by Velázquez
On August 17-18th a team from Factum Foundation worked in London’s Apsley House to record two paintings by Velázquez: The Waterseller of Seville and Two Young Men Eating at a...
Al-Qatt al-Asiri Pattern Book. An introduction to traditional painting from Asir
Al-Qatt al-Asiri Pattern Book is a folio format publication produced in collaboration with Art Jameel, that has been designed as a teaching aid for the the women of Asir. The...
The 3D virtual model of the tomb of Seti I
Launched by the Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt, Factum Foundation and the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative In July 2020, Factum Foundation, ​the TNPI and Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities are launching...
The recording in 3D and colour of two paintings by Valdés Leal
In July 2020, a team of experts from Factum Foundation travelled to Seville to record two paintings by Valdés Leal: In Ictu Oculi and Finis Gloriae Mundi. This was done...
Recording the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
From 6th to 17th July, a team from Factum Foundation was in Venice to carry out the recording of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Working with the Fondazione Giorgio...
The migration of a painting: a recreation of Raphael’s Lo Spasimo returns to Palermo as a panel painting and is installed into its original frame
On 9th July, Factum Foundation’s recreation of Raphael’s Christ Falls on the Route to Cavalry, nicknamed Lo Spasimo di Sicilia, was installed in the monastery of Santa Maria dello Spasimo...
Resuming work in the Valley of Kings
The Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative’s team and Factum Foundation are glad to announce that work has restarted in the Valley of the Kings, after the shutdown imposed by the COVID-19...
Fragments of Diego Velázquez’ life
Working in collaboration with Seville’s Archivo Histórico Provincial, Parroquia de San Pedro and Parroquia de San Juan Bautista, a team from Factum Foundation recorded in high resolution a selection of...
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...
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...
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...
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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