Photogrammetry training with two students from saudi arabia
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 of a collaborative project between Factum Foundation, Art Jameel, and the Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU).
Hope for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
A moment of celebration for everyone who has joined the campaign: on 3rd December, Tower Hamlets Development Committee received a holding direction from the government, preventing them from approving the change of the foundry to a boutique hotel. Watch this space for more news over the next few days...
Bakor monoliths: new recording at the Israel Museum
A team from Factum Foundation is in Jerusalem recording a Bakor monolith from Cross River state, Nigeria, that was recently donated to the Israel Museum. The limestone monolith was documented by Philip Allison in the early 1960s at a site called Akumabal. It will feature in Factum’s upcoming exhibition on the monoliths at the British Museum in November 2020.
Forthcoming exhibition: Polittico Griffoni at Palazzo Fava in Bologna
All 16 paintings that once formed the Polittico Griffoni are being reunited in Bologna for the first time since 1725. It is a great moment for the city and it has taken almost two years to secure the loan agreements from nine institutions. The exhibition will open on 12th March 2020 and will be accompanied by a second exhibition focussing on Factum Foundation’s work to apply technology to preservation is different ways.
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Recording the Tomb of Raphael
at the Pantheon in Rome
More news about this collaboration with Scuderie del Quirinale - Ales will be released soon but we can say that it is part of the celebrations that will surround the 500th Anniversary of Raphael's death next year. We will keep you updated.
Lamassu facsimiles donated to the University of Mosul
On 24th October, exact facsimiles of two lamassu statues (Assyrian protective deities in the form of human-headed winged lions) have been presented at the University of Mosul by Factum Foundation and the British Museum, with the logistical support of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, the Iraqi Government and the financial support of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. The project was managed by Ali Aljuboori, the director of the centre for Assyrian studies at the University of Mosul. Find out more
Unveiling the reconstruction of the sacred cave of Kamukuwaká
On the 18th and 19th of October 2019, Factum Foundation hosted an event at its workshops in Madrid to launch the facsimile of the restored sacred cave of Kamukuwaká, located just outside the Xingu Indigenous Territory, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Columbia University graduate fieldwork in Venice
The course run by Factum Foundation experts at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has now entered its fourth year. From 7th-11th October participants undertook fieldwork at the Prioral Palace and Church of the Order of Malta and the ARCHiVe facilities in Venice.
Exhibition on the Bakor Monoliths at the British Museum
In November 2020, Factum Foundation will collaborate with the British Museum on an exhibition about the Bakor Monoliths from southeastern Nigeria, many of which the Foundation has recorded in situ and in international museums in recent years.
NEW COLLABORATIONS FOCUSSING ON THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce two new projects focused on Spanish painting, one with the Casa Natal de Velázquez in Sevilla, and a second with The Auckland Project in County Durham, UK.
The recording of Raphael's Cartoons at the V&A
In August 2019 Factum Foundation carried out the recording of the Raphael Cartoons at the V&A, which have been loaned by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection. This project was one of Factum Foundation’s most ambitious digitisation works undertaken to date.
Recreation of Six Sunflowers in a Vase on show in Tokyo
Factum's recreation of Van Gogh's Six Sunflowers in a Vase (1888), a painting that was desttroyed in the American bombing of Ashiya, Japan, in 1945, is currently on show in the exhibition 'Superclone Cultural Properties' at the Tokyo University of the Arts Museum. The exhibition showcases the latest advances in cultural heritage digitisation and rematerialisation technologies.
The Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO gives its patronage to the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative
The TNPI and its ongoing training programme through the 3D Scanning, Training and Archiving Centre at Stoppelaëre House received the patronage of the Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO. The TNPI is being run by an entirely Egyptian team supported by Factum Foundation, producing some of the best 3D data that is possible with today's technology. Learn more.
Recording a 19th-century relief map of Jerusalem
A 19th-century relief model of Jerusalem has been recorded using photogrammetry in the Tower of David Museum. The model, which measures 4.5x5m and is at a scale of 1:500, shows the city in the later stages of Ottoman rule.
Recording Michelangelo's Epifania
On 29 July, Adam Lowe and Carlos Bayod participated in a Study Workshop at the British Museum and presented the results from the recording of Michelangelo's Epifania cartoon. A few weeks earlier, Factum Foundation carried out the high-resolution 3D and colour recording of Michelangelo's Epifania in a collaboration with the Department of Collections Care at the British Museum.
On 24th October 2019, exact facsimiles of two lamassu statues (Assyrian protective deities in the form of human-headed winged lions) have been presented at the University of Mosul by Factum Foundation and the British Museum, with the logistical support of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, the Iraqi Government and the financial support of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Learn more.
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