The history of painting since Manet (assuming that Manet’s Olympia is, as Malraux declared, the beginning of modern art) appears as a series of technical revolutions, competitively iconoclastic, tending to extremism, each…
Modern scholarship has increasingly focussed attention on the interrelationship of the arts, on the ways in which, for example, the visual arts may complement or inform literary discours
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…
Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…
A recent acquisition of watercolours and drawings by Georgiana McCrae (1804–90), Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–95) and Edward La Trobe Bateman (18157–97) has greatly enriched the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of works…
A work which has remained in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria for many years is the small panel called Les jaloux (The jealous ones) 496/2 (fi
The National Gallery of Victoria holds in its collection a fine impression of The poet (fig
A knowledge of the techniques and materials used by Frederick McCubbin throughout his career, together with a careful examination of the artist’s paintings, reveals McCubbin’s late work to be as technically complex…
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching
A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance
The richly illuminated prayer-book known as the Aspremont Psalter-Hours has long been recognised as an important example of manuscript production from the Lorrai
This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1
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
In 1910, Mrs Edith Wharton, the American novelist, wrote in a letter to the journalist William Moreton Fullerton: I wished for you yesterday when I stood before the divine little…