ADAM LOWE'S TALK AT UNESCO's ReACH CONFERENCE

On June 22nd, Adam Lowe, gave a talk as part of the ReACH (Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage) conference, held at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris. During this event, all the practitioners who contributed to the ReACH initiative will present their results on how new technologies can be employed to better study, preserve and share the world's cultural heritage to the Members States and UNESCO's representatives, and share the ReACH Declaration.
Read more here.

POWHATAN'S MANTLE IS THE OBJECT OF THE MONTH AT THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM

In June, the Powhatan's Mantle was nominated object of the month by the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. This leather, shell and sinew mantle is one of the oldest and most important pieces of the museum. In fact, it was part of the original Tradescant collection catalogue in 1656.
In 2017, Factum Foundation digitized it for conservation purposes using photogrammetry, a non-contact high resolution technique.
Read more here.

RECORDING WENZEL JAMNITZER'S BELL

On June 18th, a team from Factum Foundation has started working at the British Museum to record one of Wenzel Jamnitzer's most important works: a decorative bell produced in the mid-16th century. The intricacy of the surface represents one of the most challenging objects that Factum Foundation has ever tried to record. The project represents a continuation in Factum's interest in Jamnitzer, which first involved translating his perspectival studies into 3D models; read more about that project here.

FACTUM ARTE'S PROFILE, BY PATEK PHILIPPE

In his interview by Patek Philippe Magazine, Adam Lowe talks about Factum Arte, Factum Foundation, the creative energy that animates the workshops and the contemporary artists, artisans and secular masterpieces that run them.

Click here to watch the video.

DIGITISING FRANCISCO DE GOYA'S WORK AT THE MUSEO DEL PRADO

Factum Foundation, in collaboration with the Museo del Prado has carried out the digitalization in 3D and color of the work Queen María Luisa on horseback, by Franciso de Goya. Non-contact digital technology specifically developed for the field of conservation was used, such as the Lucida 3D scanner, as well as high-resolution panoramic photography.

Read more here.

RECORDING MURILLO'S FRAMES IN SEVILLE

In February and March 2018, Factum Foundation digitized two large paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. As part of the project, the paintings' two ornate gilded frames, made by Bernardo Simón de Pineda, were also digitised with close-range photogrammetry.

This project was carried out in collaboration with the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad, the Caixa Foundation and the IAPH. Read more here.

TOLKIEN: MAKER OF MIDDLE-EARTH - EXHIBITION

In conjunction with Factum Foundation, Factum Arte's contribution to the Bodleian Library's exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (June, 1st - October, 28th) is a dynamic cartographic 4D model of Middle-earth. A screen-based video is visible through carved translucent resin, and a video-projection adds further layers of factual and cartographic information, including the routes taken by the characters in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Read more here.

VENICE CENTER FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Factum Foundation is launching ARCHiVe (Analysis and Recording of Cultural Heritage in Venice) with The Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the DHLab at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The work at the centre will focus on recording, archiving and the application of intelligent computer vision software.

Read more about the project in our news section.

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 church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo, but after a long and unsettled history now hangs in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The facsimile will be returned to Sicily and installed at Santa Maria.

Read more about the project in our news section.

UPCOMING TALKS

On June 28th at 2pm Adam Lowe will give a talk entitled Making Articulate Objects: Digital Mediation and Transformation at Masterpiece London Art Fair. The following day, he will be speaking at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao for an academic workshop led by the director Miguel Zugaza. The talk - Applying Technology: Preserving the Past... Informing the Present - takes place on June 29th at 10am.

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 the Spanish Renaissance sculptor Alonso Berruguete between 1554 and 1561. The digitisation - employing both LiDAR and photogrammetry - will take place in late May 2018.

Read more news here.

TOPONYMS IN THE BOOK OF ROGER

Aliaa Ismail from Factum Foundation is studying the toponyms in the 12th century map compiled by the Muslim cartographer Al-Idrisi. The maps in a 16th century Egyptian manuscript copy were digitised in 2017 - using this data, Ismail will assemble a database cross-referencing the map with the accompanying text.

Read more about the project here.

RECORDING CANOVA

The Factum Foundation is working with the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa to record the plaster fragments of an equestrian statue of Ferdinand IV made by Antonio Canova in 1806. Our collaboration with the museum began last October with the recording of his famous sculpture The Three Graces and the digitisation of various sketches and preparatory drawings.

Learn more about the digitisation of Canova's drawings.