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Virgin of the Offering

This work by French sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia by William Bowmore AO OBE, through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation in 1994. It is a 2.5m tall bronze sculpture of the Virgin…

Tags: Ã‰mile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), Alsace, bronze, Christ, Christianity, Gothic, infant Jesus, Jesus, Madonna, Mary, model, Niederbruck, religious sculpture, Romanesque, SA, sculpture, South Australia, virgin, virgin and child

Tasmanian Gothic: artwork by Elizabeth Barsham

Tasmanian Gothic is the website for Tasmanian artist Elizabeth Barsham (formerly E.M. Christensen). Her work is inspired by such things as medieval tapestries and the Renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht DÃ¼rer (according to the…

Tags: Albrecht DÃ¼rer, art, artwork, E.M. Christensen, Elizabeth Barsham, Gothic, painting, Pieter Bruegel, Renaissance, tapestry, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmanian Gothic, website

â€˜Tasmanian Gothicâ€™, Compass, ABC TV

‘Tasmanian Gothic’ was an episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Compass television programme presented by Geraldine Doogue. The story was researched by Wendy Boynton and aired on June 24, 2012 to celebrate the 200th…

Viking House

A report on the recently completed office building Viking House on page 38 of the Perth newspaper the Western Mail on February 28, 1913. The building, which no longer survives, is described as being â€˜a replica of early Gothicâ€™ and was…

Tags: Allen and Nicholas, building, buildings, early gothic, Gothic, office, office building, offices, Perth, ship, ships, viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia, Western Mail

Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the…

Tags: Arthur, Arthurian, Arts and Crafts Movement, cinema, film, Gothic, King Arthur, Macquarie University, Marion Zimmer Bradley, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Umberto Eco, Vic, Victoria, Victorian medievalism, William Morris

â€˜Golfreise durchâ€™s Outbackâ€™ article

An article in the German edition of Golf Digest magazine about Thorngrove Manor Hotel in Stirling. As well as highlighting the features of the luxury boutique hotel the article provides information on nearby golf courses. The Kenneth Lehmann building…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, castle, fantasy, Golf Digest magazine, Gothic, hotel, Kenneth Lehmann, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, Thorngrove, Thorngrove Manor Hotel, tourism, towers, turrets, Victorian Gothic

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, film, 1925 - review

West Australian 1925 Mon 9 Nov Prince of Wales Theatre Hunchback of Notre Dame[1].pdf

Victor Hugoâ€™s novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, anglicised to â€˜The Hunchback of Notre Dameâ€™ explores a number of themes: the role of religious fanaticism in medieval theology, passion and, for Hugo, old versus new Paris. Franceâ€™s…

Tags: bell-ringing, Catholics in Australia, Esmeralda, Gothic, Gothic Revival, gothic revival architecture, gypsies, influential novel, medieval right of sanctuary, neo-Gothic, Notre-Dame de Paris, novel, novels, Quasimodo, religious fanaticism, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road

A link to an engraving taken from The Illustrated Australian News depicting the gothic architectural design of the 'Deaf and Dumb Asylum'. The building, now the Victorian College for the Deaf, is on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran.…

Tags: architecture, asylum, blue-stone, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, gothic style, lancet window, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Prahran, Saint Kilda, spire, St Kilda, tower, turret, Vic, Victoria

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