The frames by German makers in the collection are characterized by the use of very crisp ornament and highly finished surfaces.

This jar is a classic example of Florentine maiolica of the first half of the fifteenth century.

This marble torso is an outstandingly well-preserved representation of an athletic male body in its prime.

Join us for an evening celebrating a shared love of Italian art, food and culture with beloved author, cook and presenter Julia Busuttil Nishimura.

Wed 25 September The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia The Ways of Making program series offers an opportunity for educators to explore the ideas and creative processes of artists and…

This pharmacy jar was commissioned for the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florentine around 1430 and was produced by the workshop of Giunta di Tugio.

From a Palazzo in Venice to a castle in England, these armchairs had indeed lived a life before their arrival in Melbourne.

Although the Bible is the key text for the Christian religion, it is not the only source of inspiration for artists creating Christian imagery: the Golden Legend, by the thirteenth-century…

Hear Nina Sanadze reflect on her creative processes as a contemporary artist combining installation, sculpture and found objects, in conversation with NGV Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture,…

The story of these black-and-white photographs is carefully bound in a single manila folder that landed on my desk at the NGV on a Tuesday afternoon.

Giovanni Ponti, known as Gio Ponti, was one of the most influential Italian designers of the twentieth century.

Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.

Saint Filippo Neri (1515–95) was a Florentine-born clergyman who worked as a lay preacher ministering to the poor and underprivileged long before he took holy orders in 155

The early nineteenth century witnessed a revival of the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish tradition of trompe l’oeil paintings, exemplified in France by Louis-Léopold Boilly and in Italy by the lesser-known…

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