‘Mother and Child’ by G. W. Bot
Art, child, Christ, devotional, exhibition, G. W. Bot, icon, infant Jesus, Madonna, Mary, medieval painters, Mother, Mother and Child, religious art, spirituality, Virgin Mary.
<p>This linocut print, <em>Mother and Child</em> (1985), by artist G. W. Bot depicts a Madonna and child scene in which the frame is occupied almost exclusively by a Virgin Mary figure holding a child. Although held by a private collector, the piece was exhibited in a number of regional Australian art galleries between 2010 and 2013 as part of a touring exhibition of G. W. Bot’s work – <em>The Long Paddock: A 30 Year Survey</em> – developed by the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and curated by Peter Haynes. Bot’s inspiration for this work derives from the status of the Madonna and Child as a powerful Christian icon, especially in medieval religious art. During an interview conducted for the educational resource kit accompanying the exhibition, G. W Bot acknowledged this medieval influence: ‘I’ve also found inspiration in the medieval icon painters – I’ve always been fascinated by the question of how to encode spirituality in the visual arts’ (see: <a href="http://www.grag.com.au/userfiles/file/GW%20BOT%20Education%20Kit.pdf" target="_self">http://www.grag.com.au/userfiles/file/GW%20BOT%20Education%20Kit.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>For more on this artwork and other works featured in the exhibition, see the Exhibition Catalogue at: <a href="http://www.grag.com.au/userfiles/file/4569%20GW%20BOT%20-%20Catalogue_v12.pdf" target="_self">http://www.grag.com.au/userfiles/file/4569%20GW%20BOT%20-%20Catalogue_v12.pdf</a></p>
G. W. Bot (Chrissy Gishkin)
<em>The Long Paddock: A 30 Year Survey</em> Exhibition (<a href="http://www.grag.com.au/site/exhibition.php?id=3" target="_self">http://www.grag.com.au/site/exhibition.php?id=3</a>)
1985
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Linocut on BFK Paper, 62cm x 55.5cm
Corpus Christi at Manly
Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Christ, Corpus Christi, crowd, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), laity, Latin Rite, Legion of Mary, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ceremony, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veil, veneration, vision
A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of the crowd gathered at the Corpus Christi Mass in Manly, New South Wales, in 1934. The group of veiled women in white dress most likely represent the Legion of Mary, an association of Catholic laity who make a commitment to serve the Church by encouraging spiritual work and promoting mercy, in imitation of Mary. The Legion of Mary was founded in Dublin in 1921.
Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.
Hood, Ted
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales
1934
State Library of New South Wales
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St Peter’s East Window, SCEGGS Great Hall, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Canopy, Christ, Christianity, Darlinghurst, Empire, Ferguson & Urie, geometric patterning, Great Hall, medallion, medieval design, New South Wales, NSW, quarries, SGEGGS, school, school buildings, St Peter’s Church, Stained glass, Sydney, Sydney Girls Grammar School, window
An image of the East Window in the Great Hall at Sydney Girls Grammar School (SGEGGS) in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The window was originally installed in St Peter’s church in 1867, but the church has since been incorporated into the School Hall. It is the only known Ferguson & Urie window in Sydney. Depictions of Christ and the disciples in lozenge and mandorla medallions stand out amidst a richly patterned geometrical background. This window employs several medieval design and glazing techniques, notably: 12th century lancets, the use of ‘diapered’ background quarries, extensive geometric patterning, and painted figures restricted to ‘mandorla’ and lozenge-shaped medallions. Note the comparatively larger, central figure of Christ standing under the imitation c. 14th century canopy. While not limited to a medieval primary colour scheme, the overall feeling and tone of this window is decidedly one of an adventurous medievalism. Such a window transmits the essence of the gospel message in visual narrative form, to the effect that the contents of each medallion can quite easily be ‘read’ by onlookers. The twin themes of Empire and Christianity merge seamlessly within the context of the window’s Neo-Gothic medievalism.
Brown, Ray
6 May 2011
© Ray Brown
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Virgin of the Offering
Alsace, bronze, Christ, Christianity, Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), gothic, infant Jesus, Jesus, Madonna, Mary, model, Niederbruck, religious sculpture, Romanesque, sculpture, SA, South Australia, virgin, virgin and child
<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This work by French sculptor </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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 Mary holding the infant Jesus aloft. Along with similar sculptures held by the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and the National Galleries of Scotland (titled La Vierge d’Alsace), this work appears to be a model for Bourdelle’s much larger 6m tall stone carving of the subject, which was completed in 1922 and is situated on a hill in Niederbruck, Alsace, France. Bourdelle studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris after training as a wood-carver with his father, and entered Rodin’s studio as a practitioner in 1893. He incorporated both subjects and techniques from Ancient Greek and medieval sculpture into his work. In ‘Virgin and the Offering’, his admiration of gothic and medieval religious art is evident in his choice of subject, while his use of simplified forms is reminiscent of earlier Romanesque sculpture. On the Gothic and Romanesque influences of Bourdelle’s work, see the catalogue description of NG Scotland’s La Vierge d’Alsace at: <a href="http://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/GMA%202" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/GMA 2</span></a>.</span>
Bourdelle, Émile-Antoine
Art Gallery of South Australia
1921
Art Gallery of South Australia
Bronze Sculpture, 250 x 90 x 70cm; Hyperlink
The Papal Nuncio, Corpus Christi at Manly
Apostolic Nuncio, Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Christ, clergy, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), Latin Rite, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Papal Nuncio, Philip Bernardini, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ceremony, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veneration, vestments, vision
A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of Apostolic Nuncio Philip Bernardini participating in the Corpus Christi Mass at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934.
Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.
Hood, Ted
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales
1934
State Library of New South Wales
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The Mass, Corpus Christi at Manly
Benediction, celebration, Christ, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), Latin Rite, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ritual, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veneration, vision
A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of the Corpus Christi Mass held at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934.
Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.
Hood, Ted
State Library of New South Wales
1934
State Library of New South Wales
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Crowd of Veiled Women, Corpus Christi at Manly
Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Christ, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), laity, Latin Rite, Legion of Mary, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ritual, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veil, veneration, vision
A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood during the Corpus Christi Mass at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934. The picture shows a group of veiled women kneeling in the crowd. They are (less noticeably) also interspersed with men, and this group most likely represents the Legion of Mary, an association of Catholic laity who make a commitment to serve the Church by encouraging spiritual work and promoting mercy, in imitation of Mary. The Legion of Mary was founded in Dublin in 1921.
Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.
Hood, Ted
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales
1934
State Library of New South Wales
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Corpus Christi at Manly: The Procession
Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Christ, Corpus Christi, crowd, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), laity, Latin Rite, Legion of Mary, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ceremony, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veil, veneration, vestments, vision
A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of the procession following the Corpus Christi Mass at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934.
Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.
Hood, Ted
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales
1934
State Library of New South Wales
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