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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Tudor Virtual Reality
Description: 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...