‘Tasmanian Gothic’, Compass, ABC TV
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<p>‘Tasmanian Gothic’ was an episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Compass television programme presented by Geraldine Doogue. The story was researched by Wendy Boynton and aired on June 24, 2012 to celebrate the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of English architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), one of the main instigators of the Gothic Revival. Although he never visited Australia some consider the best examples of Pugin’s work to be in Tasmania, in part due to their preservation. When his friend Robert William Willson (1794-1866) was chosen as Tasmania’s first Catholic Bishop, Pugin provided him with the materials necessary to establish his diocese. These items, including scale models for three churches, were taken by Willson by ship from England to Hobart in 1844. Pugin artefacts in Tasmania include alter cloths, baptismal fonts, chalice linens, crosses, rood screens, headstones, vestments, and a monstrance (a vessel to hold the communion host, first used in the medieval period), the churches at Oatlands and Colebrook, and elements of the church at Richmond. The programme also deals with Pugin’s lasting legacy, including the enduring notion that Gothic style architecture is the most appropriate for ecclesiastical architecture. </p>
<p>For the episode transcript see <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3510122.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3510122.htm</a></p>
<p>For the Pugin churches see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119</a></p>
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
June 24, 2012
Boynton, Wendy (researcher)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1104</a>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/951</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1117</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1119</a></p>
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The Walled City of Nuremburg – The Cradle of Nazism.
Adam Krafft, Adam Kraft, Adam Kraft (c.1460-1509), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), apprentice, architecture, art, artisan, artists, burgher, carving, cathedral, church, craftsmen, crozier, engraving, filigree stonework, gable, Germany, gothic architecture, guild, Hans Sachs (1494-1576), journeyman, masonry, Master, medieval city, medieval craft, medieval guild, medieval housing, merchant, monstrance, Nuremburg, painting, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Peter Vischer (1455-1529), religion, Rothenburg, seven virtues, St Laurence, stone, stone carving, swastika, “To a Skylark†(1820), undergarments, vaulting, Veit Stoss (1450-1533), walled city, wood carving
In this article, John T. McMahon describes a visit to the city of Nuremburg in 1936. Arriving only days after one of the Nazi’s infamous Nuremburg rallies, he notes the swastika’s still lining the streets and parade ground. For most of the article, however, McMahon concentrates on explaining Nuremburg’s “splendid†medieval history, and the lasting traces of its past in the physical landscape. He describes tracing the line of the medieval walls, looking in awe at the large merchant houses with their elaborate adornments and recognising, as he looked over the city from the castle, why it’s winding streets and narrow alleys had always held such a fascination for artists and etchers. He identifies Nuremburg as a town famous for its medieval craft guilds, and describes the artistic training and accomplishments of its most famous son, Albrecht Dürer. He concludes by describing the mastery of the carving work by Adam Kraft in St Laurence’s Church, which carried the gaze up to the vaulted ceiling “like Shelley’s skylarkâ€.
McMahon, John T.
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Western Mail
24 December 1936, p. 40.
Western Mail
Newspaper Article
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Corpus Christi Procession North Sydney, 1934
Sydney, North Sydney, NSW, New South Wales, Corpus Christi Procession Sydney, medieval saints’ pageants, saints, saint, pageant, procession, parade, parades, processions, banner,
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The feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) has been held since the 13c. The host, Blessed sacrament, the consecrated body of Christ, is brought outside of its usual place in the sanctuary of the altar and paraded amongst devoted followers and the world at large. the procession is accompanied by prayer and adoration and usually concludes with Solemn Benediction. The feast occurs the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
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Friday 1 June 1934, Procession Thursday 31 May (Thursday after Trinity Sunday)
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Corpus Christi Procession in Sydney, 1930
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The feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) has been held since the 13c. The host, Blessed sacrament, the consecrated body of Christ, is brought outside of its usual place in the sanctuary of the altar and paraded amongst devoted followers and the world at large. the procession is accompanied by prayer and adoration and usually concludes with Solemn Benediction. The feast occurs the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
“After the Mass on Corpus Christi, all kneel and sing O Salutaris Hostia. The Host is incensed, and carried under an ombrellino (an umbrella-like canopy) to the baldacchino, a rectangular tent-like canopy...
Then the procession forms, led by the Crucifer (the acolyte who carries the processional Cross), who is flanked by acolytes carrying candles. Then follow members of religious associations and orders, children strewing rose petals in the path of the Blessed Sacrament (they are customarily dressed in their First
Communion clothes), clergy, and then two thurifers who incense the path. Then comes the Blessed Sacrament, carried at eye-level by a priest (with his hands veiled) in a monstrance, under the baldacchino, all flanked by torch bearers. The people walk behind.â€
http://www.communityofhopeinc.org/Catholic%20Rites/
East%20&%20West.html
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20 June 1930
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