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Bill Henson Untitled 1990-91 from the Paris Opera Project series 1990-91
In 1990 Henson was commissioned by the Paris Opera House to produce a series of photographs inspired by either the music or environment of the opera.
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Titian A monk with a book c.1550
When the NGV’s Felton Bequest adviser Frank Rinder recommended the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting, he warned the Gallery’s trustees that: ‘It would cause considerable disappointment were there…
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Albrecht Dürer Melencolia I 1514
Albrecht Dürer’s personification of the melancholic temperament in this print, one of his most famous works, shows a figure deep in contemplation, holding a compass and surrounded by an hourglass…
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Constance Jenkins, her painting Friendly critics and the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship
Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Unknown No title (Two boxers) (1850s)
This unusual daguerreotype features two bare-knuckled young American pugilists standing in the balanced boxing stance.
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The National Gallery of Victoria’s Virgin and Child, by a follower of Jan van Eyck: a continuing reassessment
For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.
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The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat
This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,
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Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
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Utagawa Yoshinku: Sumo Banzuke
While sumo wrestlers originally competed in sponsored tournaments within the grounds of shrines and temples in Japan, by the early 1780s sumo wrestling had become an integral part of Japanese…
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Shaun Gladwell: Midnight traceur
Shaun Gladwell’s hypnotic video Midnight traceur, 2011, features parkour practitioner Ali Kadhim as he dexterously negotiates the urban landscape of Sydne
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2014 Victorian Primary School Philosothon
On Friday 20th June, 120 young creative minds from 12 primary schools excitedly gathered in small groups around works of art throughout National Gallery of Victoria International as part of the…
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Joseph Willems’s Chelsea Pietà and eighteenth-century sculptural aesthetics
The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…
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Paul Strand 1890–1976: milestone in photography
Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.
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The 13th century Psalter-Offices of Joffroy d’Aspremont
The illuminated manuscript known as the Aspremont Hours which was purchased at Christie’s in 1922 for the National Gallery of Victoria warrants attention on several counts.1M
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Prospero Fontana’s Holy Family with saints
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.