Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation
The Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation is a not-for-profit organization founded by Adam Lowe in 2009 and located in Madrid, Spain. It develops new techniques in digital recording and processing to document artworks and cultural heritage of many different types.[1][2][3][4][5] It is known for its facsimiles (high-resolution physical copies) of sites and objects such as the Tomb of Seti I,[6] two monumental lamassu sculptures from Nimrud,[7][8][9] and the Borgherini Chapel.[10] The Foundation also mounts exhibitions and trains local communities across the world in the use of digital recording technologies, and is active in contemporary debates about the functions and value of facsimiles.[11][12][13] It states that its aim is to “break down the barriers between traditional and digital arts and demonstrate the importance of documenting, monitoring, studying, recreating and disseminating the world’s cultural heritage.”[14]
Factum Foundation works closely with Factum Arte, and was established in order to take over Factum Arte's non-profit work relating to cultural heritage.
Cultural heritage projects
Notable facsimiles made by Factum Foundation include:
- The tomb of Tutankhamun[15]
- Rooms from the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings. Scanning of all extant fragments from the tomb is underway, and Factum states that the finished facsimile of the tomb will be ‘by some measures... even more complete than the original as it now stands’, as it will incorporate fragments removed from the tomb in the 19th century.[16]
- Two monumental lamassu and all extant wall and floor reliefs from the throne room of the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
- The Polittico Griffoni, a 15th-century Bolognese altarpiece which was dismantled in the 18th century, and whose 16 separate painted panels are now in museums across the world
- Raphael’s Sacrifice at Lystra, one of the Raphael Cartoons now in the V&A Museum[17]
- The Pantheon Tomb of Raphael
- Several artworks from Horace Walpole’s collections for Strawberry Hill House
- Two sketchbooks by Antonio Canova
- The Offiziolo di Carlo VIII
- The Borgherini Chapel
Other projects have sought to ‘digitally restore’ artworks to a former state, to recreate lost artworks, or to show artworks in a changed form. Projects include:
- Digital restoration of a monumental plaster horse by Canova, whose original is now in fragments
- Digital restoration and restored facsimile of the vandalised sacred cave of Kamukuwaká
- Recreation of Lo Spasimo as a painting on board. The painting had been transferred from wooden boards to canvas by restorers in the early 19th century, so the recreation attempts to recover an earlier stage in the history of the work.
- The re-creation of al-Idrisi's lost silver world map
Technologies
Technologies for recording
The Factum Foundation develops many of its own recording and processing technologies, which include the Lucida 3D Scanner (designed by Manuel Franquelo with the support of Factum Foundation and Factum Arte),[18][19] the Veronica Scanner,[20] and several book and manuscript scanners.[21] The Foundation also uses established and in-development recording techniques such as photogrammetry, panoramic composite photography, LiDAR and structured light scanning.
Technologies for making facsimiles
To make its facsimiles Factum Foundation employs a range of traditional and new technologies, often in combination. Technologies include CNC-milling, several types of 3D printing, molding, plaster casting, bronze casting, inkjet printing using an in-house printer, sculptural finishing, gilding, scagliola, print-making, and the use of traditional restoration/conservation techniques.[22]
References
- ↑ Zalewski, Daniel (21 November 2016). "The Factory of Fakes: How a workshop uses digital technology to craft perfect copies of imperilled art". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dickson, Andrew (30 August 2019). "How digital scanning can help save art works and buildings". Financial Times. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gómez, Virginia (29 February 2020). "Los copiadores legales del arte antiguo". El Mundo. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Guerrero, José Antonio (10 November 2019). "El taller de los prodigios". Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Digital Innovation of the Year: The Apollo Awards 2014". Apollo Magazine. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Glass, Nick (15 November 2017). "Master replicators resurrect an ancient Egyptian tomb in Switzerland". CNN. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Guy, Jack (28 October 2019). "Mosul takes delivery of recreated icons". CNN. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Keeley, Guy (22 October 2019). "Art smashed by jihadists rises up after global effort". The Times. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ AFP (24 October 2019). "Replicas of Assyrian statues smashed by Daesh unveiled in Iraq's Mosul". Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ McEwan, Olivia (17 April 2017). "How Michelangelo and Sebastiano's Roman Chapel Was Recreated in London". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Exhibitions". Factum Foundation website. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Trainings and Collaborations". Factum Foundation website. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Apollo podcast: Adam Lowe". 4 May 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Factum Foundation website". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gee, Alison (8 November 2013). "Which would you rather visit - a fake tomb or a real one?". BBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Factum Foundation website". Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Steel, Sophie (1 October 2019). "Exciting new plans for the Raphael Cartoons and Raphael Court". V&A blog. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "A REVIEW OF RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DIGITAL FABRICATIONIN HERITAGE CONSERVATION" (PDF). The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-2/W9, 2019 8th Intl. Workshop 3D-ARCH "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures". 6–8 February 2019.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- ↑ Del Sette, Patané (2 June 2017). "Automated displacement measurements on historical canvases". Heritage Science. 5. doi:10.1186/s40494-017-0135-4.
- ↑ Alberge, Dalya (23 July 2016). "Gallery offers visitors a 3D digital sculpture in four seconds". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Technology: Recording". Factum Foundation website. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Technology: Outputs". Factum Foundation website. Retrieved 13 April 2020. Unknown parameter
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