Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) is the first woman painter to forge a long and successful career in Europe, which she did for almost forty year
The attribution of Old Master paintings is fluid at times, as ongoing research brings to light new information. The National Gallery of Victoria’s enigmatic Profile portrait of a lady, c….
When recommending the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting by the celebrated Venetian artist Titian (born Tiziano Vecellio), Frank Rinder, the London-based adviser to the Felton Bequest, wrote in…
Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu (1585–1642), was the most powerful French statesman of his da
This eighteenth-century painting of a cellist is one of the most charming and intriguing portraits in the NGV Collection.
This portrait was formerly attributed to a number of artists, including Raphael, an artist in the circle of Correggio, and Paolo Morando.
PROJECT Referencing Western sculptural traditions, Thomas J Price’s works play with methods of presentation, material and scale, to highlight the inadequate and prejudiced representations of Black people today and throughout…
PROJECT In this installation Ezz Monem explores the tension between reverence and the profane by recontextualising references to the name ‘Mohamed’ from Egyptian and broader Middle Eastern cinema.
PROJECT Farrokh Mahdavi’s symbolic use of pink comes from the translation of the Persian word for ‘pink’: ‘soorati’, named after ‘soorat’, which refers to the ‘face’.
PROJECT Gary Hume is a British painter, sculptor and printmaker who came to prominence as a member of the Young British Artists in the early 1990s.
PROJECT Depicting imagined landscapes, Shara Hughes views her works as reflections of her psychological interior world.
PROJECT Inspired by Hulda Guzmán’s immediate surroundings of Samaná in the Dominican Republic, this painting centres on a portrait of the artist dancing wildly on a table, surrounded by frolicking…
PROJECT A central principle in Gauri Gill’s practice is collaborative partnerships as a way to blur the line between photographer and subjec
PROJECT A continuously burning gas flare set against the backdrop of the Tongan coast, captures the stark realities of our evolving relationship with the environment and is a metaphor for…
PROJECT Without specific narratives but full of psychological richness, Prudence Flint’s paintings of women escape easy interpretation.