The aura in the age of digital materiality. Rethinking preservation in the shadow of an uncertain future

This publication focuses on Factum Foundation’s work to promote the use of high-resolution recording, digital restoration and creative re-materialisation while bringing into focus the changing attitudes towards owning, sharing, preserving and displaying cultural artefacts. It accompanies the exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna, which has reunified the sixteen original panels that still exist from the Polittico Griffoni, a remarkable example of painting from the Bolognese Renaissance. The altarpiece stood in the Griffoni Chapel in the Church of San Petronio until it was broken up in 1725. The 16 tempera paintings by Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de’ Roberti will be exhibited together with 16 facsimiles arranged in what is thought to be the original configuration of the altarpiece - allowing it to be seen as its patrons and makers intended. The aim of the collection of thoughts and images in this book is to encourage reflection on the ways that digital technologies in virtual and phys