New discovery in Tutankhamun's tomb
A team of archaeologists, while conducting a radar survey over the area surrounding Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, has detected evidence of an additional chamber behind the wall paintings. The theory by Nicholas Reeves, backed in 2015 by Factum Foundation's high-resolution recordings of the tomb, hinted at the possibility of hidden chambers containing Nefertiti's resting place.
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The Materiality of the Aura: an exhibition by Factum Foundation in Bologna
On the second floor of Palazzo Fava, as part of the exhibition The Revealed Masterpiece that celebrates the return to Bologna of the Polittico Griffoni, visitors will be able will explore the role of digital technology and reflect upon an object’s materiality and its “aura” (12th March - 28th June 2020).
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New recording at the National Galleries of Scotland
Ahead of the opening of the new Casa Natal de Velázquez in Seville in 2021, a team from Factum Foundation has carried out the high-resolution digitisation in 3D and colour of Old Woman Cooking Eggs by Diego Velázquez at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
NEW RECORDING IN CLUSONE
In the last days of January, Factum Foundation recorded two paintings regarded as copies from Evaristo Baschenis' famous still lives of musical instruments, belonging to Museo Arte Tempo in Clusone, Italy. This is the first step of a collaboration between the Fondazione Giorgio Cini's Early Music Seminars, directed by Pedro Memelsdorff, and ARCHiVe aimed at identifying all the eight paintings belonging to a series previously held in San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
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Facsimile of Djehuty funerary garden has been installed in Luxor
The facsimile of the Djehuty Garden, commissioned by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to be part of the protective framwork built to safeguard the original in Luxor, has been installed. The fragile ancient structure will be protected from further erosion.
NEW RECORDING IN THE TOMB OF RAMESSES X: 8000 FRAGMENTS FROM THE TOMB OF SETI I
As part of the TNPI, Factum Foundation is committed to scanning every known fragment removed from the tomb of Seti I and provide a secure archiving system to safeguard the data. We have started to record the 8,000 fragments discovered by the University of Basel within the tomb of Ramesses X, using photogrammetry.
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Call in for Whitechapel Bell Foundry Planning Application
Factum Foundation and Re-Form Heritage are pleased and encouraged by the news that the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, has called in the planning decision on the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
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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Bologna ART city: factum foundation at oratorio dello spirito santo
As part of the Bologna ART CITY on January 25th, Factum Foundation held a live recording of the façade of the Oratorio dello Spirito Santo, where Guendalina Damone presented the Foundation’s works and achievements in employing new technologies to record and archive cultural heritage, processes and restorations.
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Stoppelaëre House nominated for ICCROM-Sharjah Award 2019
The restoration of the Stoppelaëre House, carried out in 2017 by the Tarek Waly Center with support from Factum Foundation, has been nominated for the ICCROM-Sharjah Award for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Arab region 2019. This Biennial Award seeks to honour and reward outstanding work that contributes to the protection and vitality of tangible cultural heritage in the Arab region.
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Bando Lucida 2020 Winner announced
The Assumption of Mary and Saints attributed to the workshops of Sandro Botticelli, in the Monumental Complex of Pilotta in Parma has won the Bando Lucida 2020. The Bando for the analysis through 3d technology of the artwork and its restoration is sponsored by Open Care and Factum Foundation with the support of Euromobiliare Advisory SIM.
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Upcoming exhibition: Bakor monoliths in Alok
Factum Foundation and Carène Foundation are working together with the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) and the University of Calabar (UNICAL) on a a project aimed at documenting, conserving and raising awareness about the Bakor monoliths. The upcoming exhibition at British Museum in November 2020 will be traveling to the recording sites in Nigeria and then will be installed in Alok as a permanent display.
The Auckland Project
Factum Foundation has been commissioned by the Auckland Project to create a digital resource and produce facsimiles of other major paintings and sculptural works for display within the new Spanish Gallery – the first museum in the UK to be devoted to Spanish art. Among the works being rematerialised are Berrugete's masterpiece, the Sepulchre for Cardinal Tavera, and El Greco's Portrait of Cardinal Tavera. El Greco's Tabernacle has also been recorded and a digital restoration is underway.
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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.
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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