Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.
This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
THE FIRST LETTER In May 1971 Roger Cutforth, a British-born, New York-based conceptualist artist, wrote to Robert Rooney in Melbourne. THE FIRST LETTER, as Rooney inscribed on the envelope (fig….
Throughout the nineteenth century the Minton ceramic manufactory in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford-shire, England, was at the forefront of taste and innovation.
This portrait was probably painted during the reign of Shah Abbas (1587–1629), whose rule marked a period of stability and consolidation within the Persian Empire and saw the capital at Isfahan…
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.
Of the many artists who worked in Australia after its discovery by Cook in 1770, Augustus Earle is one of the most versatile and interesting of the early ones
The Anne Schofield Collection of costumes and accessories was purchased in 1974 with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria.
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich
The portrait of Maria Elizabeth O’Mullane and her children was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1976 from a distant cousin of Maria O’Mullane’s descen
The art and culture of the samurai encompasses more than 800 years of Japan’s history and creative pas
For the Greek vase collection in the National Gallery of Victoria the year between the spring of 1979 and the winter of 1980 must be regarded as an annus mirabilis, since…
Note In accordance with the tradition of Chinese handscroll painting, the illustrations on the blue-and-white Wine jar have a clockwise, directional
The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R