originally designed with an entrance from the centre of the long side, which gave access to the cathedral nave. Above the arcade nearest to the south aisle are the remains of an apparent clerestory of windows, incomplete and later walled in, which might at one stage have been conceived as allowing light from above as in a Roman basilica. At the centre of the west side, which is now much altered by the addition in the fifteenth century of thick buttresses on the outside and three large windows, and opposite the original entrance from the cathedral church, is a small rectangular recess of no obvious function, which corresponds spatially to the recess of the aedis Augusta in Vitruvius’ basilica.
The project has three objectives: firstly, to understand, through a collaboration between architectural historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages and modern designers, the lighting of the original Galilee chapel and the differences from the chapel as it stands today; secondly to elucidate, through collaboration with physicists and experts in architectural lighting, the lighting possibilities of Vitruvius’ basilica by scrutinising a similarly proportioned space and using laser- ray technology to recreate daylight radiating from different directions according to the path of the sun; and thirdly to appreciate more closely, particularly through collaboration with experts in digital photogrammetry and virtual reality models, and consultation with experts in the medieval textual tradition, the links between the Galilee of Hugh of Le Puiset and Vitruvius’ description of his basilica at Fanum.
Two events will be held during 2013/14
1. A closed interdisciplinary project seminar on 04 February 2014 to discuss and develop the basis for a large grant proposal designed to achieve the above objectives of the project. The seminar will be led by Dr Stefano Cracolici (Modern Languages and Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures), Professor Andy Monkman (Physics), and Dr Edmund Thomas (Classics & Ancient History). Experts from a range of disciplines will be invited to participate in the seminar, including Roman and medieval architectural history, medieval palaeography, architectural lighting, and photogrammetry.
2. A public evening event at the Gala Theatre on 12 May 2014, presented by the three Durham leaders of the project and a number of the external participants in the seminar.
For any additional information please contact Dr Edmund Thomas (
e.v.thomas@
durham.ac.uk), Professor Andy Monkman (
a.p.monkman@
durham.ac.uk) or Dr Stefano Cracolici (
stefano.cracolici@
durham.ac.uk).
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