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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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