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SUMMARY:Tudor Renaissance Monuments Deconstructed and Reconstructed: 3D La
 ser scanning and the Tombs of the Dukes of Norfolk - Philip Lindley\, Read
 er in History of Art\, Univ of Leicester
DTSTART:20140129T130000Z
DTEND:20140129T140000Z
UID:TALK50410@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will examine the value of 3D laser scanning of ar
 tefacts for the visualisation of the past\, using the Tudor monuments of t
 he dukes of Norfolk as a case study\n\nUntil its dissolution by Henry VIII
  in 1540\, Thetford Priory was the dynastic mausoleum of the dukes of Norf
 olk.  In 1539\, some of the finest sculptors in the country were at work c
 arving monuments for Thomas Howard\, the third duke\, and for his son-in-l
 aw\, Henry VIII's bastard\, Henry Fitzroy\, Duke of Richmond.  After he ha
 d failed to stave off the priory's dissolution\, Howard decided to move th
 e still incomplete monuments to the parish church of St Michael\, Framling
 ham in Suffolk and to rebuild the chancel to house them.  Pending that rec
 onstruction\, some tomb components were stored in his great house at Kenni
 nghall but other pieces were abandoned at Thetford. \n\nBefore the monumen
 ts could be moved to Framlingham\, the ailing king resolved on the destruc
 tion of the Howards\, whose power might threaten his young son\, the futur
 e Edward VI.  The Earl of Surrey\, Norfolk's heir\, was convicted of treas
 on and beheaded and the duke himself was only saved from execution because
  the king himself died. Howard\, though\, remained in the Tower until Quee
 n Mary I released him in 1553.  Salvaged pieces of the monuments could now
  be taken to Framlingham\, but the octogenarian duke died the next year.  
 Both monuments were hastily finished off - but in a different style and ra
 dically modifying the original designs - during the time of the fourth duk
 e. The latter commissioned two more monuments\, one for himself and his wi
 ves\, another for his daughter. They too were left incomplete when the fou
 rth duke was executed for treason in 1572. Such were the perils of power u
 nder the Tudors.\n\nSo\, the monuments of the third duke and of Richmond a
 re composites\, started in 1539 and hurriedly finished off in the 1550s. B
 its of them had been left at Thetford\, where they were excavated in later
  centuries. In posing the question how the excavated components were inten
 ded to fit into the monuments as erected at Framlingham\, we are asking wh
 at the monuments were originally intended to look like\, and what their su
 bject matter meant.  The question is an important one not just because the
 se were two of the most important monuments of the period. To reconstruct 
 their planned appearance as first intended\, 3D laser scanning and CAD sof
 tware has been used. The monuments at Framlingham have been digitally disa
 ssembled and later additions removed. The tomb-chests have then been virtu
 ally reconstructed\, incorporating pieces discarded at Thetford in 1540.  
 Here I go beyond art-historical connoisseurship and archaeological examina
 tion of artefacts to suggest that modern technology can enable innovative 
 and imaginative visualisations of the past.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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