Padre Resta’s characterisation of Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560) as the ‘Competitore

Boucher was one of those men who indicate the taste of a century, express, personify, embody it. In him, French eighteenth-century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of its character

Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…

The monkey is a rather tame animal which sits like a man. Also it teases the young women; it begs from them, extends the hand, continually offers its hand in their presenc

Towards the close of 1891, Odilon Redon wrote to express thanks to André Mellerio for his friendship, his connoisseurship and the support of his critical energies:  My dear Mellerio, I got home yesterday,…

It hardly occurs to us that most of our modern ball games could not be played without one essential ingredient, rubber, the origin of which can be traced to pre-Hispanic Mexic

For those trapped inside the canons of classical Greek sculpture, the large hollow ceramic figures from Nayarit in West Mexico (figs 1–3) may seem ‘elephantine’,1For use of the adjective ‘elephantine’ in this…

The collection of antiquities from Egypt in the National Gallery of Victoria offers the opportunity for Victorians interested in the culture of ancient Egypt to gain an introduction to many of its…

The National Gallery of Victoria recently acquired its most important example of early Indian sculpture, a freestanding male figure produced at Mathura in north India during the Kushān period, 1st to 3rd…

Just prior to his death, the British Victorian watercolourist and traveller, turned Royal Academician, John Frederick Lewis (1805–76) stipulated in his will that his remaining works, apart from a bequest to his…

In keeping with Dr Ursula Hoff’s own practice and with the meticulous training she has urged upon her students, this short article offers thoughts arising from an examination of a single artefactR

The first Lajamanu paintings have an explosive vigour rarely encountered in the field of Aboriginal art

The recent acquisition of Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Crossing of the Red Sea (fi

The Birds in a winter landscape (fig. 1), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1990, is among the major works of Lu Ji (c. 1440–

The study of the minor Flemish masters of the end of the 15th century has progressed considerably in recent years