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The High-Tech Workshop That’s Produced Exact Replicas Of Caravaggio Paintings And Tutankhamun’s Tomb

VISUAL Posted: November 23, 2016 6:02 am

Factum Arte won fame for installing a faithful copy of Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana where Napoleon had ripped the original from the wall. Its full-size copy of the teenage pharaoh’s burial chamber has been installed at Luxor so that tourists can spend time in it without their breath and body moisture damaging the original. Now there’s a hope that Factum could help recreate at least some of what ISIS destroyed at Nimrud.

VISUAL Published: 11.28.16

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 11.28.16

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