News Archive
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...
The Voices of the Amazon
A radio programme that explores the culture of the Kuikuro people and is presented by one of Factum’s long-term collaborators, Jerry Brotton, is now available on the BBC World service....
Mediation and Transformation – Alchemy and New Technology: Adam Lowe at the Warburg Institute
On May 9th, Adam Lowe is talking about Factum Foundation’s work at the Warburg Institute, London, as part of the lecture series Re-Opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern. The...
Recording The Ladies Waldegrave
In January 2018, Factum Foundation and Strawberry Hill House renewed their effort to restitute Horace Walpole’s art collection to its original location. Factum Foundation recorded Joshua Reynold’s The Ladies Waldegrave...
Digitising a collection of oriental manuscripts in Makhachkala, Dagestan
Factum Foundation’s Photographic Manuscript Scanner was installed at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography in May 2017. Since that time, operators at the IHAE have used this scanner to...
In the Media
Recently, various news outlets have published stories about the different projects carried out by the Foundation. On December 3rd, the programme Guardians of Heritage of the German History Channel broadcast...
Factum Foundation has returned to Chad
Ferdinand Saumarez Smith and Arthur Prior have returned from a three week expedition in the Tibesti region of Northern Chad, continuing Factum Foundation’s collaboration with the Trust for African Rock...
Capturing Footprints
As part of our first practical collaboration with Iconem in Pakistan, Factum Foundation´s Ross Davison and Luke Tchalenko carried out the high-resolution recording of a fossilized footprint in motion. The...
Recording in Jeddah
Factum Foundation’s Pedro Miró and Otto Lowe traveled to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), as part of a pilot project with Art Jameel documenting vernacular architecture and training Saudi students in photogrammetry...
Recording Qut paintings in Asir, Saudi Arabia
The Foundation, working with Art Jameel, has been on a fact finding mission that has involved the recording of some of the remaining examples of the delicate and discrete qut...
3D model of the statue of Idrimi
The statue of Idrimi, a refugee from Aleppo who rose to become the king of Alalakh in southern Turkey 3,500 years ago, was recorded and scanned last February at the...
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