The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, Brisbane
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The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, located in Brisbane, Queensland, aims to provide an understanding of the human past through dynamic interpretation and historical re-enactment. They provide displays and offer a diversity of events and activities (such as the Abbey Medieval Festival) to educate and inspire interest in history.
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Accessed 2012
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The Medieval Writer’s window, The Great Hall at The University of Sydney
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<p>An image of one of a series of colourful and elaborate figural windows with trefoil heads created especially for The University of Sydney by the London firm of Clayton & Bell (c. 1859-60). The window depicts three well-known medieval writers: Geoffrey Chaucer (l), the jurist John Fortescue (c), and James I of Scotland (r). Each of the three figures is fully ‘canopied,’ a self-conscious nineteenth-century ‘medievalism’ that lends an ecclesiastical dignity to the overall composition. The Great Hall at the University of Sydney is functionally a place of assembly, and its appearance is strikingly similar to the choir of a medieval church. The Hall is designed to invoke the ambience, seriousness, and sense of achievement of the great medieval seats-of-learning established at Oxford and Cambridge. The collection of windows gathered within its walls is one of the finest anywhere in Australia, and encompasses a variety of themes, including those of learning, patronage, royalty and corporate endeavour.</p>
To view this and other stained glass windows from the Great Hall and Quadrangle, see: <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/senate/Quadrangle_decorative_features_stained_glass.shtml%20" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://sydney.edu.au/senate/Quadrangle_decorative_features_stained_glass.shtml </span></a>
White, David
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PICA Tower, Perth
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This photograph shows the tower of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in the Perth Cultural Centre. The building, opened in 1897 and designed by William Atkins, was originally the Perth Boys’ and Girls’ School, and was often referred to as Perth Central School. The central red brick tower with a pitched corrugated roof and arched upper windows is in the Romanesque style. A medieval example of this style of tower, but with fewer arched windows, was found at the front of Cluny Abbey III in France, built in 1088.
McLeod, Shane
12 January 2012
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