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â€˜Mother and Childâ€™ by G. W. Bot

This linocut print, Mother and Child (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…

Tags: art, child, Christ, devotional, exhibition, G. W. Bot, icon, infant Jesus, Madonna, Mary, medieval painters, Mother, Mother and Child, religious art, spirituality, Virgin Mary

â€˜Road Knightsâ€™ by Daniel Rutter Long

This artwork by artist Daniel Rutter Long is titled â€˜Road Knightsâ€™. Completed in 1883, it is a watercolour and pencil painting depicting a rural farmhouse, cows, trees, an Aboriginal man wearing European dress, a seated woman and a…

Tags: art, artwork, Daniel Rutter Long, Gippsland, knight, Road knights, rural Victoria

â€˜St Francis and the Birdsâ€™, by Michael Galovic

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…

â€˜The Fight: St George Kills the Dragon VIâ€™ by Edward Burne-Jones

This oil on canvas painting by well-known nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones was gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Arthur Moon. It is one of seven paintings from a â€˜St George and the Dragonâ€™ narrative cycle that…

Tags: Aesthetic Pre-Raphaelitism, Armor, Armour, art, artwork, chivalric tradition, chivalry, damsel, dragon, gallantry, George, knight, legend, Myles Birket Foster, myth, New South Wales, NSW, Pre-Raphaelite, Princess Sabra, St George, sword, The Hill, Witley

â€˜The Marriage of the Arnolfini â€“ After Jan van Eyckâ€™ by Fiona Hall

This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1984. In the photograph Hall has reconstructed her own version of the scene from medieval Dutch painter Jan van Eyckâ€™s famous 1434…

Tags: art, artwork, Bruges, Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, insert, Jan van Eyck, marriage, merchant, modern art, New South Wales, NSW, photograph, portrait, The Arnolfini Portrait, The National Gallery, wedding

Adam and Eve (Adam et Ãˆve)

This work by French sculptor Albert BartholomÃ© was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria with funds from the Felton Bequest in 1922. It is a bronze sculpture depicting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. It has been dated to 1905,…

Tags: Adam, Albert BartholomÃ© (1848-1928), art, biblical, Brancacci Chapel, bronze, cast, Eve, exile, expulsion, Expulsion from Paradise, Florence, Masaccio (c.1401-1428), paradise, sculpture, Vic, Victoria

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

Banners at the SCA College Challenge - St. Basil vs. St. Lazarus

Image of hand-made centrally supported one-sided banners at the Society for Creative Anachronism's College Challenge between St. Basil (UWA) and St. Lazarus (Murdoch University). The event was held on the 19th of December, 2010 at the UWA campus. …

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