Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) has exploded into mainstream media and is now being introduced into the design process of artists, architects and designers.

During the eighteenth century painted and engraved views of Rome were popular among visitors to the city, in particular the wealthy young Englishmen who roamed the Continent on what was known as…

When Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) published his set of fourteen etchings Invenzioni Capric di Carceri (Fanciful Images of Prisons) in 1749–50, he was a young man establishing his artistic career…

Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…

In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed

Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…

The breathtaking originality of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s series of etchings, the Imaginary Prisons, has remained a source of inspiration since they were first published in the mid-18th century. This exhibition presents the first and second edition of Piranesi’s Prison series together with Vik Muniz’s photographs inspired by Piranesi�