The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag
In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s art was added by courtesy of the Felton Bequest to the fine collection of one hundred and twenty etchings by the master held in…
The latter half of the 1970s was a particularly busy period for Fred Williams: with his wife Lyn he made a number of trips to Europe and the United States; his exhibition…
The National Gallery of Victoria has in its collection two paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz.
Ovid (Metamorphoses III) tells how Diana, chaste goddess of the hunt, was spied on by Actaeon while bathing, and in punishment she turned him into a stag.
From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin
As his name suggests, Claude Gellé Le Lorrain was born in the duchy of Lorraine in France, however he spent nearly his entire career in Italy
Born in 1963 in London, Tracey Emin CBE RA’s multi-disciplinary practice is powerful and divers
Agnieszka Pilat’s Heterobota, 2023, tests our threshold for machines to exist outside of servitude and develop their own creative pursuit
Still life painting ‘bloomed’ during an economic boom period in the Netherlands fuelled by imperialism, trade monopolies and the use of enslaved lab
The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim
Collaboration, friendship, inspiration, loss, love and connection. These themes filter through many artworks in the NGV Collection.
Madeleine Dore interviews a mindfulness teacher, an artist, a curator and NGV visitors about their experiences of the Gallery, and learns that art museums offer much to audiences seeking a…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia led to the flight of some two million Jewish people from the Russian Empire.
In the year 1911, at the age of 53, the famous Australian stage actress and pantomime artist Nellie Stewart sat for her portrait in the Melbourne studio of a young…