Guercino
Recreations for ‘Guercino. L’era Ludovisi a Roma’
For the exhibition ‘Guercino. L’era Ludovisi a Roma’ (31 October 2024 – 26 January 2025), Factum Foundation recreated two works by Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino (1591–1666): the St Chrysogonus in Glory (1622) from Lancaster House, London, and The Burial and Glory of St Petronilla (1623), from the Musei Capitolini in Rome.(...).
Facsimiles and recreations are able to significantly change the way we think about exhibition content and design, especially when the original artworks cannot travel.
Guercino’s St Chrysogonus in Glory is today on the ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lancaster House, in London, for which it was purchased in the 19th century. It stands 17 meters above the ground, surrounded by lantern windows. It was recorded using composite colour photography to generate a file of 400 dpi at 1:1. The colour was then printed onto a gesso-coated canvas and varnished (...)
The Burial and Glory of St Petronilla presented a different challenge. This 7m-tall painting hangs in the Musei Capitolini and cannot be moved. The lower part of the painting was recorded in 3D using the Lucida Laser Scanner and the colour was captured at a resolution of 500dpi at 1:1. To make the facsimile, the painting was divided into 20 sections. The area recorded with the Lucida was rematerialised as an exact copy of the surface and moulds were made from the elevated prints (a technology developed by Canon Production Printing, with whom Factum has collaborated since 2018). From these moulds, the surface was rematerialised in gesso ready for printing. Once the 20 sections were printed and varnished, they were spliced together and fixed to a rigid support. All the joins are retouched by hand before the final varnish is applied.
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La Factum Foundation esegue un meticoloso monitoraggio dello stato di conversazione del patrimonio culturale senza nemmeno sfiorare l’oggetto preso di mira, che esso sia una tela, una scultura o persino la tomba di un faraone.
L’organizzazione fondata nel 2009, con sedi a Madrid, Londra e Milano, usa le nuovissime tecnologie di registrazione che permettono studi approfonditi delle tecniche artigianali dei nostri antenati. A volte il monitoraggio è finalizzato a re-materializzare un facsimile ad alta risoluzione dell’oggetto studiato (...) L’obiettivo di molti progetti realizzati da Factum Foundation è quello di dimostrare come le nuove tecnologie possano assumere un ruolo centrale nella conservazione preventiva di luoghi del patrimonio e possano modificare l’atteggiamento verso l’utilizzo di dati digitali (sia virtuali che fisici) nella gestione e conservazione del patrimonio culturale.
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