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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.
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A newly-discovered masterpiece by J. M. W. Turner
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
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Rembrandt’s Shell – conus marmoreus L.
In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s art was added by courtesy of the Felton Bequest to the fine collection of one hundred and twenty etchings by the master held in…
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Goya’s Caprichos
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich
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J. W. Lindt, photographer (1845–1926)
In the major libraries of Australia there are sets of remarkable photographs of aborigines taken between 1868 and 1876 in Grafton, New South Wales, by John William Lindt.
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The Clavey family by Arthur Devis
The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…
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Amitie: Russell and Van Gogh
The legend of John Peter Russell has many attractive aspects, but none more so than his friendship with Vincent Van Gogh.
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Three newly acquired symbolist graphics by Ensor, Aman-Jean and Munch
One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…
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Fred Kruger (1831–88)
The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.
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Jules Bastien-Lepage: a new perspective
In 1879, when he was just thirty-one years of age, the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honour, signalling the immense breadth of his popularity
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A Florentine Book of Hours in the National Gallery of Victoria
In 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired, through the Felton Bequest, a particularly fine Florentine Book of Hours formerly in the Dyson Perrins collection.1 MS
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Eroticism, myth and the bullfight: Picasso’s Femme Torero I and Corrida
La corrida toute entière baigne dans une atmosphere érotique – Michel Leiris, Miroir de la tauromachie,