Recording of 11 Ushabti figurines from the tomb of Seti I

A team from Factum Foundation has started the photogrammetric recording of eleven Ushabti statuettes from the tomb of Seti I, part of the permanent collection of the Museo Civico Archeologico (MCA) of Bologna. Ten statuettes are made of wood and one of earthenware. Highly artistic in quality and larger in size, the latter shows the sovereign with the regal nemes headdress, the usekh pectoral as well as wide bracelets on his wrists, dotted with cobalt blue on a ground lapis lazuli. Read more.

A FACSIMILE OF THE WEDDING AT CANA
BY PAOLO VERONESE

Over a decade later, the facsimile of the Wedding at Cana still looks as it did on the day it was installed in its original position, on the end wall of the Palladian refectory on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. The copy, commissioned by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and made by Factum Arte, is an exact facsimile of the painting that was recorded in the Musée du Louvre. Learn more about the project here.

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 few museums in Italy dedicated to showing every aspect of Remondini’s industrial process within the 16th and 17th centuries as well as the phases in the production of books, decorated papers, religious and popular print makings, games, optical views, etchings and woodcuts.
Read more on the Lucida Lab Milano.

REGISTRATION OPENING: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TEACHING PROGRAMME

The registration is now open for the Digital Transformation teaching programme that will be given by Carlos Bayod Lucini, Project Director at Factum Foundation. The programme is an initiative from the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado and will be held in Madrid from 6 to 27 March 2019.

More information on the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado's website.

Recording "Maria Sethe, afterwards Madame Henry Van de Velde" by Theo Van Rysselberghe

Factum Foundation's team started the digitisation of the painting "Maria Sèthe, afterwards Madame Henry Van de Velde" by Theo Van Rysselberghe, collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

Read more on recording projects here.

'SAVED BY THE BELL!' - THE RESURRECTION OF THE WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY

Factum Foundation is launching a new initiative in partnership with The United Kingdom Historic Building Preservation Trust (UKHBPT) to resurrect the historic Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a working foundry for the 21st century. The WBF was acquired in 2017 and the manufacture of the bells which have continuously been made at the site since the reign of Elizabeth I ceased. Read the full proposal, prepared by Skene Catling de la Peña.

RECORDING PARMIGIANINO'S SELF-PORTRAIT IN VIENNA

Factum Foundation's team went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna to record Parmigianino's self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524). This small painting, measuring just about 20 cm in diameter, is one of the masterpieces in the museum's Picture Gallery. The data collected from this project is currently being processed. Read more here.

RECORDING WENZEL JAMNITZER'S BELL

In June 2018, 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.

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.