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â€˜Afternoon in Chartres Cathedralâ€™ by Salvatore Zofrea

This woodblock print, from Salvatore Zofrea’s Appassionata collection, was gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by the Italian-Australian artist in 2002. Depicting a scene in Chartres Cathedral, it features the gothic arches, vaulted…

Tags: Appassionata, architecture, art, Art gallery of New South Wales, Cathedral, Catholicism, Chartres Cathedral, church interior, ecclesiastical building, France, French Gothic, gothic architecture, print, Salvatore Zofrea (b.1946), stained glass, window

Kryal Castle, Ballarat

Kryal Castle is a tourist attraction 8km from Ballarat in Victoria. Described as â€˜Australiaâ€™s unique medieval castleâ€™, Kryal Castle can also be hired for weddings, conferences, functions, and special events. It was built in 1972…

Tags: Ballarat, battlements, castle, crenelation, drawbridge, gate, Keith Ryall, Kryal Castle, moat, porticullis, tourism, tower, Vic, Victoria

Wesleyan Church, Woolloomooloo, NSW

Sketch of the Wesleyan Church, designed by the architect Thomas Rowe, at Woolloomoolo in New South Wales. The church is typical of the gothic revival style with its spire and arched, gothic windows.

Tags: albumen print, architect, architecture, Church, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, lancet window, lancet windows, neo-Gothic, New South Wales, NSW, sketch, spire, Thomas Rowe, window, windows

The Loving Cup

This work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, arenowned nineteenth-century painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, depicts a young woman in a voluminous medieval-looking gown raising a golden cup decorated with a heart shaped design to her lips.…

Tags: art, Arthurian, Arthurian romance, chivalry, cup, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Gouache, ivy, knight, legend, medieval clothing, nostalgia, Pre-Raphaelite, replica, romance, SA, South Australia, Victorian, watercolour

The Second Maquette for the Burghers of Calais

This piece from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection is one of 12 bronze sculptures cast from a plaster sculpture created by Rodin in 1885. The original ‘Second Maquette for the Burghers of Calais’ from which it was cast is…

Bigoted Bedrock of Our Law

Amidst media fervour over the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (Princess Catherine), Geoffrey Robertson raises the Australian republican question in this opinion piece. Beginning with reference to Thomas Paineâ€™s denunciation…

Pugin Foundation

The Pugin Foundation is a not for profit organisation based in Victoria. Their website is devoted to the works of English architect August Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). The website has a particular focus on the Pugin-designed churches built in…

Tags: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic, churches, essays, Gothic, Gothic Revival, New South Wales, NSW, Pugin Foundation, Qld, Queensland, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, website.

Souvenir Shield: Private C.E. Urry, 1 Battalion, AIF

REL/00793 Front and reverse Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Small aluminium shield. Engraved on the obverse is, '528 PRIVATE C E URRY 25TH APRIL GALLIPOLI HMS SCOURGE 5TH JUNE GERMAN OFFICERS TRENCH 6TH AUGUST LONE PINE EVACUATED 20TH…

Tags: aluminium, Anzac Cove, armourer, Badge, badges, C.E. Urry, coat-of arms, First World War, Gallipoli, heraldry, Lonepine, shield, Turkey, Western Front, World War, World War I

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