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Ancilla Domini; or, Handmaid or â€˜maid servantâ€™ of the Lord

This work by Australian artist Rupert Bunny was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1996. It depicts the religious subject of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel descended from heaven to tell Mary that she would conceive the son of…

Tags: Adam, angel, Annunciation, art, colour, curtain, Eden, Eve, Gabriel, lilies, Mary, Pre-Raphaelite, religious art, Renaissance art, rose, Rupert Bunny (1864-1947), SA, South Australia, symbolism, vermillion, virgin

Roaming Tiger, The West Australian, 12 December 1953

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This interest piece from The West Australian in 1953 discusses the symbolic use of animals in roman legends and medieval fables, and their anthropomorphic investment with human characteristics. Using an incident in New South Wales where a circus…

Tags: Aesop, Androcles, Animals, anthropomorphism, circus, coat of arms, courage, emblem, fables, folklore, gratitude, honour, lion, loyalty, Medieval Romance, Narrandera, New South Wales, NSW, popular culture, Red Riding Hood, Remus, Reynard the Fox, she-wolf, stories, story-tellers, symbolism, tiger, wolf

Stairwell window at â€˜Glenferrie,â€™ Malvern, Victoria

This commanding stairwell window by Ferguson & Urie (1872) is calculated to reflect the prosperity and good fortune of the original owner, James Fergusson. Fergusson was a Melbourne manufacturing stationer, and was at times a member of the…

Tags: Australiana, blazon, coat-of-arms, colonialism, Emu, Ferguson & Urie, Fergusson coat-of-arms, Glenferrie, James Fergusson, kangaroo, Malvern, medieval design, rose, shamrock, stained glass, symbolism, thistle, Vic, Victoria

Fair Rosamund

This work by English artist Arthur Hughes depicts the twelfth-century figure of Rosamund in the garden that King Henry II of England created for her at his royal residence in Oxfordshire. Rosamund was Henryâ€™s mistress. She was reputedly…

Tags: Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), Eleanor of Aquitaine, fleur-de-lys, flowers, foxgloves, garden, Henry II of England, iris, maze, mistress, poison, Rosamund, secret garden, symbolism, Vic, Victoria, Walter de Clifford, Woodstock

The â€˜Australiaâ€™ window; or â€˜Oceaniaâ€™ in the Sydney Town Hall

One of two neo-romanesque with rounded heads and stylised borders designed by Frenchman Lucian Henry and manufactured by Goodlet & Smith for the Sydney Town Hall auditorium, at a time when national fervour was running high in the late nineteenth…

Mainly Medieval replica spoon

An advertisement for a replica medieval eating spoon distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. The spoon is made from food grade pewter. It is described by the catalogue as…

Tags: â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, acorn, acorn knop, consumption, dining, dining utensils, food, knop, material culture, medieval eating customs, New South Wales, NSW, pewter, replica, reproduction, spoon, symbolism, utensils

Replica Thirteenth-Century Devotional Candleholder

An advertisement for a replica thirteenth-century devotional candleholder distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. In purified Christianised logic, the candle is a symbol of…

Pilgrim Badge: St James of Compostella

An advertisement for a scallop shell badge distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. The scallop shell badge signifies that the wearer has completed the lengthy overland pilgrimage…

Tags: â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, Badge, Compostella, material culture, medieval pilgrimage, New South Wales, NSW, pilgrim, pilgrimage, replica, reproduction, Saint James, scallop shell, shrine, Spain, St James, symbolism, Way of St James

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