Tudor Virtual Reality

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Advances in robotics and virtual reality are giving us ever more 'realistic' ways of representing the world, but the quest for vivid visualisation is thousands of years old. This essay takes the guide to oratory and getting your message across written by the ancient Roman Quintilian and focuses in on a wall painting of The Judgment of Solomon in an Elizabethan house in the village of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire. Often written off as stiff, formal and artificial with arguments that the Reformation fear of idolatry stifled Elizabethan art, New Generation Thinker Christina Faraday argues that story telling and conveying vivid detail was an important part of painting in this period as art was used to communicate messages to serve social, political and religious ends. Christina Faraday is a New Generation Thinker who lectures in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. You can find more programmes involving New Generation Thinkers on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144txn and a series of podcasts hosted by them under the playlist New Research https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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0:37.0	Hello, I'm Shahed Abari, and welcome to this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, in which
0:42.4	we'll hear an essay from one of the 2019 New Generation thinkers. They are early career
0:48.6	academics who work with BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council on a
0:53.6	scheme that turns their
0:54.6	research into radio. I was one of the first ten people chosen for the scheme nearly ten
1:00.4	years ago. In this year's essays you'll hear topics ranging from clean energy, crime
1:05.9	and punishment and archaeological views of the earth to moving large
1:10.1	tracks of it to build dams in Pakistan,
1:13.3	Renaissance art, racism in techno music, and rethinking facial disfigurement.
1:19.2	Christina Faraday lectures in the history of art at the University of Cambridge,
1:23.1	and her piece has the intriguing title, Tudor Virtual Reality.
1:28.3	A couple of years ago, I became obsessed with dinosaurs.
1:32.3	It started with an innocent trip to the cinema to see Jurassic World 2
1:36.3	and culminated with a ringside seat for walking with dinosaurs, the Arena Spectacular, at Wembley.
1:42.3	Along the way, I had visited the animatronic T-Rex at the Natural
1:46.1	History Museum in London. I weighed myself on the What Dinosauru machine at York Museum,
1:52.3	and I tried out a virtual reality headset to meet a brontosaurus. At first, I had thought of all
1:58.6	of this as a mental break from my other obsession, Tudor art.
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