Save the date: Conversation at Spencer House
On 23 Sept., Factum Foundation's Adam Lowe and exhibition designer Charlotte Skene Catling will be in conversation with Jonathan Jones about how technology is being used to enhance our understanding of art history, enabling masterpieces which have been victims of circumstance or history to be seen as they were once intended.
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.
Save the Whitechapel Bell foundry
We passed 19,000 signatures to Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Let's make it 20,000!
A new website and short film explain why Britain’s oldest manufacturing business should not be turned into a boutique hotel, what a sustainable 21st-century bell foundry could look like, and how you can voice your objection to the planning proposals. Read this article from the Daily Mail (05/08/19). Listen to this podcast on BBC Radio (starts at 01:18:00 - 16/08/19).
Find out 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.
Save the date: ArtTech Forum 2019
On 24 Sept., Adam Lowe will give a talk at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini for the 2019 edition of the ArtTech Forum, focusing on technologies, heritage preservation and the archiving of historical data.
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.
Arte TV: Europe Time Machine, Historical Sites in Danger
Factum Foundation’s founder Adam Lowe was interviewed for a new mini-series by Arte TV about the Europe Time Machine, a project to use machine learning and big data technology to create a searchable, interactive archive of Europe’s heritage.
The lost silver map of Al-Idrisi
Factum Arte’s recreation of the lost silver map of al-Idrisi is now complete. The map, a reconstruction of a lost 12th-century original following a 16th-century Ottoman copy, was exhibited at Daniel Crouch Rare Books at the Masterpiece London art fair, and is currently on view at the exhibition ‘Talking Maps’ at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Book launch: ‘Antonio Canova. Atelier’
A new book, Antonio Canova. Atelier, tells the story of the ongoing collaboration between Factum Foundation and the Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa, a project which is transforming the conservation and display of drawings and sculptures by the neoclassical sculptor Canova. The new volume tells the story of these artworks from their creation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to their technological transformation today.
Purchase now.
In development: Photometric scanner
Factum Foundation is constantly looking for new ways to record accurate information of the surface of paintings. Currently in development in the Madrid workshops is the photometric scanner – a fast, portable system that will be capable of recording high-resolution 3D surface texture for both visualisation and re-materialisation.
Digitisation workshop with students from ISIA Urbino 10th - 14th June
Carlos Bayod, Guendalina Damone and Otto Lowe from Factum Foundation's 3D scanning department taught a five-day workshop focussing on non-contact recording technologies to students on the Photography MA course from the design university ISIA Urbino.
Learn more about the practical courses in digitisation technologies given by Factum Foundation.
A late-15th-century altarpiece by the Maestro de Perea
The 14 panels of the Retablo del Maestro de Pera have been recorded in a new collaboration with the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli. The recordings will provide accurate documentation of the late 15th-century altarpiece following the conservation of its panels.
A 3D scan of Fra Angelico's Annunciation
Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation (1425-26) depicts on the one hand the Archangel Gabriel's Annunciation to the Virgin and on the other the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. In the past year, the Annunciation has undergone a complex process of cleaning and conservation.
Factum Foundation contributed to the documentation effort by carrying out a high-resolution 3D recording of the painting following the restoration, which is of particular interest in this case due to the superb surface work executed by the artist. Learn more.
Opening: Madame de Pompadour in the frame,
An exhibition at Waddesdon Manor
Factum Foundation has completed facsimiles of two portraits by Boucher for the exhibition ‘Madame de Pompadour in the Frame,’ to be held at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, UK (May 23rd-October 20th, 2019). The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for viewers to directly compare a painting with its facsimile, and to see another facsimile within its historic frame, now separated from the original. Further details on both the facsimiles and exhibition can be found here.
Neither facsimile nor copy, this re-creation of al-Idrisi's map in silver combines painstaking historical research with advanced digital techniques and the highest levels of craftsmanship, paying tribute to the lost original and offering yet another layer to add to the complexity of its transmission. Find out more.
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