Our last School excursion for the year was to
“Eikon,” an exhibition of icons at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
The Director of the Gallery, Mr Gordon Morrison,
has set up an exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, calendar and cards of an
exceptional standard, and those members of the School who were able to attend
found it to be both edifying and informative.
The Annunciation icon designed for the
top of the iconostasis at the Library has been completed and mounted. It is a
fuller representation of the Annunciation inas-
much as, in addition to Archangel Gabriel and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kings
David and Solomon appear holding scrolls foretelling the event.
One is from Psalm 44 and reads, in part,
“Hearken, O Daughter, and see, and in- cline thine ear, for the King hath
greatly desired thy beauty,” while the other from Proverbs reads, “Many
daughters have amassed wealth; thou hast sur- passed them all.”
John Daly
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