RECORDING MURILLO IN SEVILLE

During February and March 2018, Factum Foundation has digitized The Miracle of the Fish and Bread and Moses drawing water from the rock, two large-sized paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The paintings were recorded at the Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio HIstórico in Seville using the Lucida 3D Scanner and panoramic photography.

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IKOM MONOLITH

A team from Factum Foundation has just completed the 3D recording of the top half of an Ikom monolith held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The bottom half remains in its original location (Ntitogo) where it was recorded by Factum in October 2016. The models will be presented together at a conference on the subject of the preservation of the monolith sites at the University of Calabar in March.

RECORDING AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND

A Factum Foundation team digitized Joshua Reynolds' The Ladies Waldegrave at the National Gallery of Scotland. The information captured will be used to create a facsimile of the painting and its frame that will be installed in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House, its original location.

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RECORDING CANOVA

The Factum Foundation is working with the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa to digitize 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 digitization of various sketches and preparatory drawings.

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PROTECTING QATT PAINTINGS

UNESCO has recognized Qatt art, the traditional interior wall decoration typical of Asir, Saudi Arabia, as an expression of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since 2017, Factum Foundation has been working with Art Jameel documenting endangered heritage in Saudi Arabia, including some of the oldest and most fragile examples of Qatt.

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NEW PODCAST

La Série Documentaire, a program broadcasted in France Culture, produced a four-part podcast about the issue of discovery, protection and repatriation of works of art. Journalist Perrine Kervran researched the role and responsibility of museums, collectors and foundations in caring for objects. The third podcast explains the arrival of Veronese's Wedding at Canna to the Louvre and its return to San Giorgio Maggiore as a facsimile.

Click here to access the podcast.

DIGITISING ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS IN DAGESTAN

Since May 2017, the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography (IHAE) in Dagestan has photographed over 109,000 manuscript pages with resolutions of 800 dpi at 1:1 using Factum Foundation's Photographic Manuscript Scanner. Click here to read about the exciting project to record this collection of more than 3000 oriental manuscripts.

RECORDING FOOTPRINTS

As part of our first practical collaboration with Iconem, Factum Foundation´s Ross Davison and Luke Tchalenko carried out the high-resolution recording of a fossilized footprint in motion. While the team recorded these imprints in Pakistan, the BBC reported that an ancient dinosaur footprint was vandalized in Australia.

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MUSEUMS: FROM TREASURIES TO AGORAS

Adam Lowe participated in the final ReACH roundtable at the V&A in London. The ReACH research team defined a series of guidelines that transform the way museums store, preserve and disseminate their collections. The Declaration signed by more than 20 institutions on December 8th sets new standards for recording, reproducing and sharing works of art.

Read it here.

3RD CROSS RIVER CONFERENCE

Factum Foundation has just returned from eastern Nigeria, where the recent recording of a Cross River monolith fragment in the Metropolitan Museum NY was presented to a conference at the University of Calabar. Following the conference, a 3D printed model of the reunified monolith was presented to the paramount ruler of the Bakor people at a meeting of the clan elders in Akumabal.