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Bouguereauâ€™s Virgin and Child

This work by William Adolphe Bouguereau was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1899 with funds from the Elder Bequest. It depicts the Virgin Mary, clothed in a dark green dress with gold trim and seated against a backdrop of rich gold…

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Virgin of the Offering

This work by French sculptor 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…

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Adaptation: Studies in Transmission between Cultures and Forms

A 2011 undergraduate unit run by Associate Professor Frances Bonner in the School of English, Media and Art History at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. Week 7 of the unit uses Tolkienâ€™s books informed by the early medieval…

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James Boagâ€™s Draught

This billboard in Launceston advertises James Boagâ€™s Draught beer. The logo for the beer features an armoured knight wearing a helmet and thrusting downwards with a spear. Behind him lies a dragon. The inclusion of a dragon suggests that the…

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Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Wolf is a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Allora. They are focus on the Crusades and Crusader experiences in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their leader is ‘Duke Robert…

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Bouguereauâ€™s Virgin and Child

Virgin of the Offering

Adaptation: Studies in Transmission between Cultures and Forms

James Boagâ€™s Draught

Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Ravens Medieval Re-enactment Group

Bismarck Metalcraft

'Performance of excerpt from Aucassin et Nicolette'