Sir Jacob Epstein’s reputation as a sculptor rests chiefly on his prolific output of exuberant and expressive portraits and, to an extent, has been consolidated by the frequent controversy attending the realisation…
The collection of antiquities from Egypt in the National Gallery of Victoria offers the opportunity for Victorians interested in the culture of ancient Egypt to gain an introduction to many of its…
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 24 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Richard Haese investigates ‘the lost Wimmera years of…
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 24 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Richard Haese investigates ‘the lost Wimmera years of…
Just prior to his death, the British Victorian watercolourist and traveller, turned Royal Academician, John Frederick Lewis (1805–76) stipulated in his will that his remaining works, apart from a bequest to his…
I have been devoted to Ursula Hoff ever since I met her at a time when both of us were engaged in graduate studies in the Department of Art History in…
The recent acquisition of Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Crossing of the Red Sea (fi
The National Gallery of Victoria holds in its collection a fine impression of The poet (fig
Marshall Claxton’s painting An emigrant’s thoughts of home (1859) (
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 34 contains four carefully chosen essays from a variety of areas of the NGV’s collection: Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren discusses the Contributions to the…
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 34 contains four carefully chosen essays from a variety of areas of the NGV’s collection: Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren discusses the Contributions to the…
When Everard Studley Miller died aged sixty-nine on 5 July 1956, the major beneficiary of his £262 940 estate was the National Gallery of Victor
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…
In early 1871, two versions of The vintage festival were sent to Ernest Gambart, the prominent Belgian art dealer, as part of the second group of pictures he had commissioned from Sir Lawrence…
One commonly held prerequisite for a successful portrait is that it will convey something of the psychological life of the sitter.
On Thursday 23 February 1984 the front page of the Melbourne Age featured a photograph of a 25-year-old Keith Haring standing before a robot-DJ figure he had recently painted, wearing a pair…