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Recreation of the Colossus of Constantine installed in Rome
Factum Foundation’s 12m-tall recreation of the Colossus of Constantine, previously on display at Fondazione Prada, is now installed inside the garden of Villa Caffarelli, in Rome. This project is the...
Save the Date: Oulu Innovative Playground
Thursday, April 11th
Oulu Innovative Playground is an event dedicated to sharing experiences and exploring new possibilities in the post-industrial landscape. Esteemed speakers will present their projects, aiming to discover innovative solutions for...
7 & 14 March 2024 – ARCHiVe Online Academy: 3D Digital Investigation for Canvases and Painted Panels
SAVE THE DATES: 7 & 14 March, 3pm — 5pm (CET) Online course featuring two projects undertaken by ARCHiVe, alongside other case studies: the digitisation of the Palazzo Cini Gallery (47 panel...
New collaboration: Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium
Another means of ensuring that both digital and physical cultural material remains accessible and traceable is blockchain technology. Factum Foundation is collaborating with the Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium, run by...
Facsimile of one of the exterior panels of the Beaune Altarpiece
As part of the exhibition ‘REVISITING VAN EYCK. The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin’ at the Musée du Louvre (March 20 – June 17, 2024), the Hospices Civils de Beaune used...
Facsimile of the Codex Emilianense 60 revealed to the public
On February 22, 2023, the President of the Government of La Rioja (Spain) and President of the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation, Gonzalo Capellán, presented in Madrid the “Critical-Philological...
John Martin and the Stukeley Papers
To people who have never visited the North East of England, John Martin’s apocalyptic scenes might appear to be wild fantasies conjured up from his imagination, but in fact the...
Two facsimiles of sculptures by Diego de Pesquera donated to the Convent of Madre de Dios in Seville
Created in 1575 by Diego de Pesquera (1530-1587), the two praying sculptures depict Doña Juana de Zúñiga and Catalina Cortés, respectively spouse and daughter of Hernán Cortés. They are located...
The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká is returning home
Providing access to both a cultural and natural heritage is a key feature of Factum’s collaboration with People’s Palace Projects to return a restored facsimile of the sacred cave of...
Recording Christoffel Jegher’s woodblocks at the Museum Plantin-Moretus
Factum Foundation is currently collaborating with the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp to record the series of woodblocks cut by the Flemish artist Christoffel Jegher to illustrate the treatise Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae...
Save the Date: Oulu Innovative Playground
Thursday, April 11th
Oulu Innovative Playground is an event dedicated to sharing experiences and exploring new possibilities in the post-industrial landscape. Esteemed speakers will present their projects, aiming to discover innovative solutions for...
7 & 14 March 2024 – ARCHiVe Online Academy: 3D Digital Investigation for Canvases and Painted Panels
SAVE THE DATES: 7 & 14 March, 3pm — 5pm (CET) Online course featuring two projects undertaken by ARCHiVe, alongside other case studies: the digitisation of the Palazzo Cini Gallery (47 panel...
New collaboration: Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium
Another means of ensuring that both digital and physical cultural material remains accessible and traceable is blockchain technology. Factum Foundation is collaborating with the Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium, run by...
Facsimile of one of the exterior panels of the Beaune Altarpiece
As part of the exhibition ‘REVISITING VAN EYCK. The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin’ at the Musée du Louvre (March 20 – June 17, 2024), the Hospices Civils de Beaune used...
Facsimile of the Codex Emilianense 60 revealed to the public
On February 22, 2023, the President of the Government of La Rioja (Spain) and President of the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation, Gonzalo Capellán, presented in Madrid the “Critical-Philological...
John Martin and the Stukeley Papers
To people who have never visited the North East of England, John Martin’s apocalyptic scenes might appear to be wild fantasies conjured up from his imagination, but in fact the...
Two facsimiles of sculptures by Diego de Pesquera donated to the Convent of Madre de Dios in Seville
Created in 1575 by Diego de Pesquera (1530-1587), the two praying sculptures depict Doña Juana de Zúñiga and Catalina Cortés, respectively spouse and daughter of Hernán Cortés. They are located...
The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká is returning home
Providing access to both a cultural and natural heritage is a key feature of Factum’s collaboration with People’s Palace Projects to return a restored facsimile of the sacred cave of...
Recording Christoffel Jegher’s woodblocks at the Museum Plantin-Moretus
Factum Foundation is currently collaborating with the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp to record the series of woodblocks cut by the Flemish artist Christoffel Jegher to illustrate the treatise Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae...
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The Renaissance reborn: meet the man who recreates masterpieces
The man who found a solution to the museum restitution row… using a 3D scanner
Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus
El Coloso de Constantino revive en Roma: la gran obra de una empresa de Madrid con impresoras 3D
Il Colosso di Costantino, una «magnifica illusione»
El horno árabe que despierta de su letargo
A Virginia Museum Repatriated a Nigerian Sculpture and Received a High-Tech Replica in Return. Could the Exchange Shape Future Restitutions?
US museum returns centuries-old Bakor monolith to Nigeria
Will replicas tempt museums to return looted objects more quickly?
Auras migratoires. Entretien avec Adam Lowe, par Jean-Michel Frodon
Il facsimile salverà l’arte?
New imaging tool confirms female scribe etched her name in medieval manuscript
The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book
El clon español de la tumba de Tutankamón
‘Everything has a price’: estate agent lists historic foundry that once cast Big Ben’s bells
