Factum Foundation has worked with the Musei Capitolini and Fondazione Prada on an ambitious project to recreate the large-scale sculpture of the Colossus of Constantine (313-324) for the exhibition ‘Recycling Beauty’ (November 17, 2022 – February 27, 2023), curated by Salvatore Settis.
After recording in high-resolution three rooms at Palazzo Te, Factum Foundation and Factum Arte worked with Fondazione Palazzo Te on recreating five designs by Giulio Romano as physical objects for the exhibition ‘Giulio Romano. La forza delle cose’. Curated by Barbara Furlotti and Guido Rebecchini, the show focused on the artist’s talent and ingenuity in object design – both for leisure and war.
A collection of 2,500-year-old clay impressions (also known as letter-bulla) bearing the seal of Aršāma, a Persian prince and regional governor of the Achaemenid Empire, is the earliest group of objects to be recorded by ARCHiOx. The impression was made by an intricately carved tool, rolled over the surface of seven small unfired clay pieces – just over four centimetres in width.
This project forms part of the wider restoration of Cardinal Tavera’s sepulchre and was conceived as a collaboration between Factum Foundation and the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli. The white marble sepulchre was the final commission of the sculptor Alonso Berruguete – it was made in 1552 for the Hospital of San Juan Batista (better known as the Hospital Tavera) in Toledo, Spain.
After recording, the data for each fragment was converted into a digital model. Both photogrammetry and structured light scanning operate by identifying millions of separate points on the surface of an object and visualising the whole as a point cloud. The points are then joined together to create a coherent object with a closed surface.
