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The Holy Family of Francis I, St Elizabeth, Saint John and the infant Christ
Giulio Romano
This work was produced in Raphael’s workshop and is a fragment of a cartoon used in the execution of one of the artist’s late painting commissi
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Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist
Correggio
Correggio is one of the four artists whose work defines Italian High Renaissance painting; the others are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelang
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Formafantasma
Writer and curator Justin McGuirk investigates the complex Triennial commission Ore streams, 2016–17, by Amsterdam-based design duo Formafantasm
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Tiffany Studio: Clara Driscoll
A cache of letters written by Clara Driscoll, head designer at New York’s Tiffany Studio at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, captures a story that still resonates…
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A scrap album worthy of a fancy dress
Victorian’s, both in England and in the colonies, were enamoured with donning fancy dress costume when attending events such as parlour games, theatricals and balls, and would go to extreme…
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Framing Fancies: Lely’s portrait of Sir John Rous
A fantastical conglomeration of shells, flowing marine forms and even a sea monster surrounds the portrait of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet of Henham Hall, painted by Sir Peter Lely…
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Framing Fancies: Lely’s portrait of Sir John Rous
A fantastical conglomeration of shells, flowing marine forms and even a sea monster surrounds the portrait of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet of Henham Hall, painted by Sir Peter Lely…
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Miss Geddes Sheet music, fancy dress 1906
This charming fancy-dress costume was acquired from a private collector.
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The original provenance of the Predella panel by Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) in the National Gallery of Victoria: a hypothesis
The panel in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, representing The burning of Jan Hus, is one of the important works of Stefano di Giovanni (Fig. 1
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Zoffany as punster and prankster: some comments on his David with the head of Goliath
In about 1750 the young Johan Zoffany1He was born Johann Joseph Zauffalӱ at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1733, the son of the Bohemian-born Franz Zauffalӱ, who was originally a cabinet-maker, but later…
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Strangeness and fantasy: notes on nineteenth-century Venetian glass at the National Gallery of Victoria
When Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906), nineteenth-century architect and nephew of the eminent Victorian connoisseur Sir Charles Eastlake, came to the subject of modern glass in his famous Hints on Household Taste – a treatise…
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Amédée Ozenfant’s Nature morte
Nature morte is a seminal work from the pivotal moment in the career of Amédée Ozenfant when, along with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier), he forged a new,…
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Correggio’s Madonna and Child with infant St John the Baptist
Correggio’s Madonna and Child with infant St John the Baptist is once again gracing the walls of the NGV following a conservation treatmen
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Framing the future: The growth of Australian houses
In the heart of Melbourne this summer, the view from NGV’s backyard feels more like a postcard from the suburb
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Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Art can save you. Art can change you. Art is an act of power. Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it or say otherw