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Cross River Monoliths
The Cross River or Ikom monoliths are some of the most important sculptural works in Sub-Saharan Africa. A team from Factum Foundation is travelling to Cross River State in eastern...
Back to Work in Luxor
Factum Foundation are pleased to announce that work is now restarting in the tomb of Seti I, a critical step in completing one of the central goals of the Theban...
A facsimile of ‘Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium’ (1891)
Factum Foundation have undertaken the reproduction of Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium (1891) by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Théo van Rysselberghe to be returned to its original context of La Nouvelle...
The ‘Cimera de Jaime I’
As part of their exhibition ‘Memory of the Kingdom, 600 years of Generalitat Valenciana’, the Generalitat Valenciana commissioned Factum Foundation to reproduce the ‘Cimera de Jaime I’, an extraordinary 13th...
Digitising Islamic Manuscripts in Dagestan, (2015-present)
The manuscript digitisation project at the IHAE in Dagestan has led to the discovery of a palimpsest with a 6th century Gospel of Luke. The original text was in the...
Scanning the Mappa Turchesca
Factum Foundation has recorded the cherry-wood printing blocks (matrices) of the 16th-century “Mappa Turchesca”, in an ARCHiVe project undertaken together with two students from the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV)....
Canova’s Equestrian Statue
Following the success of the maquette recording of Canova’s equestrian statue at the Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa and under the initiative of Chiara Casarin, the director of the...
Digitising Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
In 2017, Factum Foundation documented two paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo at the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad in Seville: the Miracle of the multiplication of the bread and fishes...
Photogrammetry
Involving taking hundreds of overlapping photographs of an object from many different angles and processing them using specialised software, photogrammetry produces geometrically precise, but also highly detailed, 3D models of...
Francesco Salviati’s ceiling at the Palazzo Grimani, Venice
A sixteenth-century painted ceiling will be returned to the Palazzo Grimani in Venice in the form of a facsimile made by Factum Foundation. The ceiling, now in the Musée Jacquemart-André...
Rembrandt’s ‘Portrait of an Old Man’
Factum Foundation has collaborated with Canon Production Printing (previously Océ – A Canon Company) and the Mauritshuis Museum in the recording and reproduction of Rembrandt’s Portrait of an Elderly Man...
‘The Ladies Waldegrave’, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1780)
Factum Foundation recorded the painting in the galleries of the Scottish National Gallery with the canvas unframed and mounted on an easel to facilitate the work. The central section of...
Art UK Sculpture launch
Factum Foundation is collaborating with Art UK in their endeavour to catalogue the UK’s national sculpture collection. Although the cataloguing is primarily focused on the photographic documentation of approximately 170,000...
The ‘Virgen de las Nieves’ of La Palma
In February 2019, the facsimile of a terracotta icon of the ‘Virgin de las Nieves’ produced by Factum Arte, alongside a protective shell for the original, was officially inaugurated and...
The Lucida Lab Milano recording J. B. Jackson’s Chiaroscuro woodcuts
A team from the Lucida Lab Milano started the recording of J. B. Jackson’s Chiaroscuro woodcuts, in Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa’s Civic Museum. Palazzo Sturm is one of the...
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