Proposed RIII hologram at DMU - "body lying on display"
Proposed RIII hologram at DMU - "body lying on display"
2015-10-05 16:55:20
DMU Leicester are planning a Richard III hologram project for their area around the remaining arches of the Newarke: to say it is distasteful and dishonourable is putting it mildly - it is to be a "three-dimensional tableau or still life showing the body of Richard lying on display". If you wish to email them, the email contacts are at the bottom of the article -
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2015/october/competition-for-dmu-students-to-design-richard-iii-hologram.aspx#sthash.AEO1qDWB.dpuf
Re: Proposed RIII hologram at DMU - "body lying on display"
2015-10-05 19:23:51
UPDATE:
The DMU piece has been altered to state: 'The design brief is very
specific in stating history records that Richard's body was naked,
battle-wounded and mutilated when it was put on display. It is not
desired that the hologram will faithfully represent this as it would not be appropriate&
This is true.
But if they do a hologram of Richard clothed, and without the terrible injuries that he suffered at Bosworth (and afterwards perhaps), as if Tudor had accorded him the dignity deserving of a king and it was a peaceful lying-in-state at the Newarke, then that would be a travesty of the facts.
It's a disastrous idea either way. If they insist on doing something about Richard , they should do a hologram of a living Richard, or of his father receiving his knighthood at St Mary de Castro in 1426.
This is true.
But if they do a hologram of Richard clothed, and without the terrible injuries that he suffered at Bosworth (and afterwards perhaps), as if Tudor had accorded him the dignity deserving of a king and it was a peaceful lying-in-state at the Newarke, then that would be a travesty of the facts.
It's a disastrous idea either way. If they insist on doing something about Richard , they should do a hologram of a living Richard, or of his father receiving his knighthood at St Mary de Castro in 1426.
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