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Rayner also produced a variety of smaller work, built up a fine school of sculpture, and in 1934 was commissioned to design the
Victorian centenary medal. His use of a ram's head as the design for one side of it was much criticised, and it is not one of his most successful efforts. At the time of his
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Italian work of the Renaissance, the Assyrian friezes, the attempt to retain only the essentials, characteristic of some of the moderns, and the simple sincerity of the
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A ten-metre-long bronze relief, over the west door of the Sydney ANZAC War
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at Sydney. His best-known works are the figures on the exterior of the
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