Commissioned by Cesare d’Este (1561–1628), Duke of Ferrara (until 1597), Modena and Reggio (until 1628), for the Camera del Poggiolo, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara,
Cobalt blue pigment and indigo blue dye are two of the most distinctive and influential colourants employed by artists worldwide.
What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.
Gloves are highly evocative but also ambivalent. They serve to protect and conceal, attract and deflect, mimicking the human skin beneath with the embellished borrowed skin of another creature.
Sven Palmqvist began his work at Orrefors in 1936. Not only did he expand the range of designs for art glass, but also introduced new manufacturing techniques.
This frame draws on the form and detailing of frames from Italy and Spain, particularly Spanish bolection frames of the seventeenth century.
Among the most mysterious items in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance collection are two walnut wedding chests (figs 1 and 2
Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish-born artist who spent his entire artistic career in Italy, where he was the leading painter in Naples during the first half of the seventeenth…
Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901) is one of Australia’s most important landscape painters. TheEugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed exhibition recognises the enormous contribution he made to Australia
In the fifteenth century, the art, architecture, literature and science of ancient Greece and Rome were rediscovered, and inspired the complex and extraordinary cultural phenomenon that was Renaissance art. As ancient sculptures were unearthed in Italy, artists copied them in marble, in paint and on paper. At the same time, they revolutionised figure drawing by studying the anatomy and movement of bodies, and rendering them with unprecedented accuracy. The NGV’s Old Master paintings, drawings and prints in this exhibition show the diversity of approaches to the figure in art, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Annibale Carracci and Peter Paul Rubens.
A collaboration between the NGV and Warrnambool Art Gallery. Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890. The Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria possesses a small pen drawing1Pen and bistre: 20 x 21 cm, purchased through the Felton Bequest, 1923. The following article offers some new observations concerning the dating, iconography, and artistic context of an Italian painting that was purchased by the Gallery in 1961 (fig. Nothing is more exciting for the lover of art than the totally unexpected appearance of a masterpiece by a great artist. That two such masterpieces by J. M. W The National Gallery of Victoria was very fortunate to be able to acquire in 1973, thanks to the generosity of the Felton Bequest, one of the finest extant Campanian phlyax…
Indemnification for this exhibition is provided by the Victorian Government
Paul Strand 1890–1976: milestone in photography
A drawing by Battista Franco and its Venetian context
Prospero Fontana’s Holy Family with saints
A newly-discovered masterpiece by J. M. W. Turner
A Campanian phlyax vase