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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville
Subject
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West Leederville, Ruislip Street, Perth, WA, Western Australia, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, education, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Reverend M. Gibney, Bishop, industrial home, girls, juvenile, juveniles, juvenile delinquents, delinquents, delinquency, buttress, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, tower, pointed arch, tracery.
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<p>An image of the Catholic Education Centre on Ruislip Street in West Leederville, an inner-city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The buildings that make up the Catholic Education Centre were once known as the Home Of The Good Shepherd and were run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The building in this image was constructed in 1908 as an 'Industrial Home' for juvenile female 'delinquents' and remained as this until 1979. The photograph shows the Gothic Revival style of much of the building, including a prominent square tower, buttresses, decorative pointed finials, lancet windows, and a large pointed arch window with tracery.</p>
<p>For the Romanesque arcading on another part of the building see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1112">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1112</a></p>
Creator
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Carter, Bree
Date
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2012
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No Copyright
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<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1112">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1112</a>
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
Bishop
buttress
Catholic
Catholicism
Christianity
delinquency
delinquents
education
finial
girls
Gothic
Gothic Revival
industrial home
juvenile
juvenile delinquents
juveniles
lancet window
Perth
pointed arch
Reverend M. Gibney
Ruislip Street
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
tower
tracery
WA
West Leederville
Western Australia
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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<p>To view this image,</p>
<p>1. Go to: <a href="http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/CollectionSearch.jsp" target="_self">http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/CollectionSearch.jsp</a></p>
<p>2. Search by artist or title.</p>
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'St Francis beaten by his Father', by Arthur Boyd
Subject
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art, Assisi, beating, business, Catholicism, Christianity, church, cloth merchant, drawing, family, father, Francis of Assisi, Franciscan Order, modern art, patrimony, poverty, preacher, preaching, religious order, repairs, saint, Saint Francis of Assisi, San Damiano, St Francis of Assisi, The Poor Clares, violence, work.
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This work by Arthur Boyd was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1969 with funds from the Morgan Thomas Bequest. It depicts St Francis of Assisi being beaten by his father, who is known to have objected to Francis’ religious inclinations and specifically to have reprimanded him for selling cloth from his shop to fund church repairs. St Francis (Giovanni Francesco do Bernadone) was born in Assisi around 1181. After an adolescence spent learning his father’s cloth business and aspiring to be a noble knight, he received his religious calling in his twenties when he was praying at San Damiano and heard Christ telling him to repair the church. Following a dispute with his father after selling cloth to raise money for the task, Francis returned every stitch of clothing his father had ever given him and renounced his patrimony. He turned to a life of poverty and religious work. He founded the Franciscan Order, a religious order devoted to poverty, work and preaching, which was authorised by Pope Innocent III in 1210 and quickly grew in popularity from a few followers to a large network of Franciscan preachers and missionaries (administered by Cardinal Ugolini, later Pope Gregory IX) and an enclosed order for women, The Poor Clares. In 1224 St Francis received the stigmata. He died in 1226, and was pronounced a saint only two years later by Pope Gregory IX.
Creator
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Arthur Boyd, 1920-1999
Source
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Art Gallery of South Australia: <a href="http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/" target="_self">http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/</a><br />
Date
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1965
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Art Gallery of South Australia, with permission of the Bundanon Trust
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Lithograph on Paper, 47.9cm x 60.3cm
art
Assisi
beating
business
Catholicism
Christianity
Church
cloth merchant
drawing
family
father
Francis of Assisi
Franciscan Order
modern art
patrimony
poverty
preacher
preaching
religious order
repairs
saint
Saint Francis of Assisi
San Damiano
St Francis of Assisi
The Poor Clares
violence
work
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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URL
<a href="http://www.michaelgalovic.com/Pop/StFrancis.html" target="_self">http://www.michaelgalovic.com/Pop/StFrancis.html</a>
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Title
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‘St Francis and the Birds’, by Michael Galovic
Subject
The topic of the resource
Animals, art, Assisi, Bevagna, birds, Cardinal Ugolini, Catholicism, Christianity, Francis of Assisi, Franciscan, Giovanni Francesco do Bernadone, icon, iconography, modern art, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Innocent III, Portiuncula, poverty, preacher, preaching, religious art, religious order, saint, Saint Francis of Assisi, St Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St Francis, The Poor Clares, work, ‘new icons’.
Description
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<p>This artwork by Yugoslavian-Australian artist Michael Galovic depicts St Francis of Assisi, the thirteenth-century religious reformer, preaching to birds in his characteristic brown habit. It is an example of the artist’s modern religious artwork in which he seeks to create new versions of traditional icons, often featuring medieval figures such as St Francis or Hildegard of Bingen (see <a href="http://www.michaelgalovic.com/galleryintro.html" target="_self">http://www.michaelgalovic.com/galleryintro.html</a>). St Francis (Giovanni Francesco do Bernadone) was born in Assisi around 1181 to a wealthy cloth merchant. Following a dispute with his father in his twenties, he returned every stitch of clothing his father had ever given him and turned to a life of poverty and religious work, particularly by helping to rebuild churches. He founded the Franciscan Order, a religious order devoted to poverty, work and preaching, which was authorised by Pope Innocent III in 1210 and quickly grew in popularity from a few followers to a large network of Franciscan preachers and missionaries (administered by Cardinal Ugolini, later Pope Gregory IX) and an enclosed order for women, The Poor Clares. In 1224 St Francis received the stigmata. He died in 1226 and only two years later he was pronounced a saint by Pope Gregory IX. Among many well-known stories about St Francis and animals is the scene depicted in this painting, which is described in <em>The Little Flowers of St Francis</em>:</p>
<p>So solace-filled he left them, and full well,<br />To penitence disposed, and, parting thence,<br />Betwixt Carmano and Bevagna came. <br />And, ardently as ever journeying on, <br />He raised his eyes and certain trees beheld <br />Fast by the way-side, on whose boughs were perched <br />A multitude of birds innumerable, <br />So that Saint Francis was amazed thereat, <br />And said to his companions: “In the road <br />Ye shall await me here, whole I go preach <br />Unto the birds my sisters”: and he went <br />Within the field, and to the birds ‘gan preach <br />That on the ground were sitting; and at once <br />Those that were on the trees did come to him,<br />And, one and all, stayed motionless until <br />Saint Francis had done preaching, and e’en then<br />Departed not till he had given them <br />His Benediction.</p>
<p>(James Rhoades, <em>The Little Flowers of St Francis: Rendered into English Verse</em>, London, 1904, pp.88-89).</p>
Creator
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Michael Galovic
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<a href="http://www.michaelgalovic.com" target="_self">http://www.michaelgalovic.com</a>
Date
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1998
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Michael Galovic
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Gessoed board, with egg tempera and gold leaf, mixed technique assemblage, 100cm x 70cm
‘new icons’
Animals
art
Assisi
Bevagna
birds
Cardinal Ugolini
Catholicism
Christianity
Francis of Assisi
Francsciscan
Giovanni Francesco do Bernadone
icon
iconography
modern art
Pope Gregory IX
Pope Innocent III
Portiuncula
poverty
preacher
preaching
religious art
religious order
saint
Saint Francis of Assisi
St Francis of Assisi
The Little Flowers of St Francis
The Poor Clares
work
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
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Title
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Front Corridor of the Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville
Subject
The topic of the resource
West Leederville, Ruislip Street, Perth, WA, Western Australia, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, education, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Reverend M. Gibney, Bishop, industrial home, girls, juvenile, juveniles, juvenile delinquents, delinquents, delinquency, corridor
Description
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Photograph of the front corridor of the Catholic Education Centre, on ruislip street, West Leederville in Perth Western Australia. The semi-circular arches are in the Romanesque style, which as the style of ecclesiastical architecture popular in much of Europe prior to the 12th century Gothic style.
Creator
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Carter, Bree
Date
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2012
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No Copyright
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
Bishop
Catholic
Catholicism
Christianity
corridor
delinquency
delinquents
education
girls
industrial home
juvenile
juvenile delinquents
juveniles
Perth
Reverend M. Gibney
Ruislip Street
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
WA
West Leederville
Western Australia
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
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Title
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Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville: Front Entrance
Subject
The topic of the resource
West Leederville, Ruislip Street, Perth, WA, Western Australia, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, education, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Reverend M. Gibney, Bishop, industrial home, girls, juvenile, juveniles, juvenile delinquents, delinquents, delinquency
Description
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An image of the front entrance of the Catholic Education Centre on Ruislip Street in West Leederville, an inner-city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The buildings that make up the Catholic Education Centre were once known as the Home Of The Good Shepherd and were run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The building in this image was constructed in 1908 as an 'Industrial Home' for juvenile female 'delinquents' and remained as this until 1979. The semi-circular arches are in the Romanesque style, which as the style of ecclesiastical architecture popular in much of Europe prior to the 12th century Gothic style.
Creator
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Carter, Bree
Date
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2012
Rights
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No Copyright
Format
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
Bishop
Catholic
Catholicism
Christianity
delinquency
delinquents
education
girls
industrial home
juvenile
juvenile delinquents
juveniles
Perth
Reverend M. Gibney
Ruislip Street
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
WA
West Leederville
Western Australia
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Statue of St. George, Kryal Castle, Ballarat
Subject
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Kryal Castle, castle, crenelation, drawbridge, gate, Kryal Castle, moat, porticullis, Keith Ryall, tourism, tower, battlements, leisure, recreation, re-creation, entertainment, functions, Ballarat, Melbourne, VIC, Victoria, St George, St. George, Saint George, saint, saints, figures, figure, statue, statues, Christian, Christianity, religion, religious, chivalry, chivalric tradition, chivalric, knight, knights, legend, myth, mythology, dragon, dragons, armour, horse
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<p>An image of the large statue of St. George located inside Kryal Castle, a tourist attraction near Ballarat in Victoria. The figure is atop a horse in full metal armour. At the foot of the statue are plaques describing the legend of 'St. George and the Dragon.'</p>
<p>For more on the St George legend in Australia, see Andrew Lynch, “‘Thingless names’? The St George Legend in Australia”, The La Trobe Journal, vol.81, Autumn 2008, pp.40-52: <a href="http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-81/t1-g-t4.html" target="_blank">http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-81/t1-g-t4.html</a>).</p>
<p><strong>About Kryal Castle:</strong></p>
<p>Built in 1972 by Keith Ryall, Kryal Castle is described as ‘Australia’s unique medieval castle.’ As well as functioning as a tourist attraction, the castle can be hired for weddings, conferences, functions, and special events. Its medieval architectural features include crenellation, a moat, and a defended gate with flanking towers, drawbridge and a porticullis.</p>
<br />
Creator
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Jeffrey, N.
Date
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2007
Rights
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N. Jeffrey
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Digital photograph; JPEG
Armour
Ballarat
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castle
chivalric
chivalric tradition
chivalry
Christian
Christianity
crenelation
dragon
dragons
drawbridge
entertainment
figure
figures
functions
gate
horse
Keith Ryall
knight
knights
Kryal Castle
legend
leisure
Melbourne
moat
myth
mythology
porticullis
re-creation
recreation
religion
religious
saint
Saint George
saints
St George
St. George
statue
statues
tourism
tower
Vic
Victoria
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Medievalism at the Foundations
Description
An account of the resource
This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
Hyperlink
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URL
<span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raysalmanac/5735966859/in/photostream" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/raysalmanac/5735966859/in/photostream</span></span></a></span>
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St Peter’s East Window, SCEGGS Great Hall, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Subject
The topic of the resource
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
Description
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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.
Creator
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Brown, Ray
Date
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6 May 2011
Rights
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© Ray Brown
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Hyperlink
canopy
Christ
Christianity
Darlinghurst
Empire
Ferguson & Urie
geometric patterning
Great Hall
medallion
medieval design
New South Wales
NSW
quarries
school
school buildings
SGEGGS
St Peter’s Church
stained glass
Sydney
Sydney Girls Grammar School
window
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Virgin of the Offering
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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
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<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>
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Bourdelle, Émile-Antoine
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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1921
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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Bronze Sculpture, 250 x 90 x 70cm; Hyperlink
Émile-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