It was considered one of the greatest altarpieces of the 15th Century Bolognese School. The 16 panels of the Polittico Griffoni once formed the altarpiece of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. The manufacture of the objects involved a variety of methods including stereolithography, milling, fused deposition modelling, electro forming and electro plating, in addition to a host of moulding and casting technologies Polittico Griffoni The objects were shown in the context of prints, drawings and books in Soane's library. Diverse Manieri: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess aimed to explore the relationship between Sir John Soane and Piranesi.
#Factum arte piranesi series#
In March–May 2014, Factum Arte exhibited the series at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
The objects were later toured for exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, and San Diego The project was conceived by Adam Lowe, Michele De Lucchi, and John Wilton-Ely and was exhibited in the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore for the Venice Biennale. In 2010 the Cini Foundation commissioned the visualisation and manufacture of objects designed by the 18th century artist and antiquarian Giambattista Piranesi. Corriere della Sera called the facsimile a "turning point in art". The facsimile was commissioned in 2006 by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and, following an agreement with the Louvre, Factum Arte's technicians were allowed to scan the painting at night. The original painting, commissioned in 1562, was plundered by the French Revolutionary Army of Napoleon in 1797 and sent to the Louvre Museum, where it hangs opposite the Mona Lisa. In November 2007, Factum Arte's facsimile of The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563), by Paolo Veronese, was presented by the Cini Foundation in the original location of the painting, the Andrea Palladio's refectory for the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. In 2014 the company installed the facsimile in the Valley of the Kings, beside Howard Carter's house. In 2012, the company presented its facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun in Cairo. In 2005 a second facsimile of the tomb was exhibited in Madrid, Edinburgh, and Basel titled Immortal Pharaoh: The Tomb of Thutmose III (Edinburgh) and The Tomb of Thutmose III: The Dark Hours of the Sun (Madrid and Basel). The facsimile was toured at exhibitions in various museums in the United States between November 2002 and December 2007.
Tomb of Thutmose III įactum Arte was commissioned by United Exhibits Group to make a 1:1 facsimile of the Tomb of Thutmose III in 2002. Notable projects Tomb of Seti I įactum Arte was founded in 2001 in order to facilitate the development of technology needed specifically for the recording of the Tomb of Seti I. The Seti project involved the design and construction of 3D laser scanners, software, and photographic equipment to record the walls of the tomb at high-resolution. įactum Arte has worked with institutions such as the British Museum in London, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.įactum Arte was founded in 2001 by the artists Adam Lowe, Manuel Franquelo, with Fernando Garcia-Guereta to facilitate the recording of the Tomb of Seti I and works with a number of artists including Marc Quinn and Anish Kapoor. The facsimile, and its proximity to the original tomb, is intended to provoke a debate about preservation as Factum Arte's Director, Adam Lowe, was said: "The tomb of Tutankhamun was built to last for eternity, but it wasn't built to be visited". In 2014, Factum Arte completed the installation of an exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, near Howard Carter’s house. Since 2009, Factum Arte's non-profit cultural heritage projects have been carried out through the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation. It also seeks to promote the use of non-contact 3D digitisation technologies to record museum collections and historic monuments, especially in areas where these are at risk. Its commercial activity involves assisting contemporary artists to create technically difficult and innovative works of art. Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Arte, with Manuela Carmena, mayor of Madrid, in the Factum Arte premises in Madrid.įactum Arte is an art conservation company based in Madrid, Milan, and London.
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