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Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Crossing of the Red Sea
The recent acquisition of Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Crossing of the Red Sea (fi
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An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
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…
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Look homeward Angel: Marshall Claxton’s emigrant
Marshall Claxton’s painting An emigrant’s thoughts of home (1859) (
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A pioneer of Australian picture framing: an introduction to the work of Lillie Williamson
A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance
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Albrecht Dürer’s devotional images of the Virgin and Child
One of the themes which most preoccupied the creative talents of Albrecht Dürer is that of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Chi
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Everard Studley Miller and his bequest to the National Gallery of Victoria
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
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Exploring a fifteenth-century garden: a restoration uncovers the past
In 1948 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired from the dealer Tomás Harris in London, on the recommendation of Sir Kenneth Clark, the then Adviser to the Helton Bequest, a fifteenth-century Italian…
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Strangeness and fantasy: notes on nineteenth-century Venetian glass at the National Gallery of Victoria
When Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906), nineteenth-century architect and nephew of the eminent Victorian connoisseur Sir Charles Eastlake, came to the subject of modern glass in his famous Hints on Household Taste – a treatise…
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George Romney’s sketchbook in the National Gallery of Victoria: the development of a new expressive vocabulary
The National Gallery of Victoria’s sketchbook by George Romney (1734–1802)1The sketchbook is a vellum-covered book measuring 19.8 x 15.9 cm and containing sixty-nine leaves. It was acquired through the Felton Bequest̷
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A Seventeenth-century Anglo-Venetian vessel, with Dutch engraving, at The National Gallery of Victoria
During the sixteenth century, glassmaking in Europe underwent a significant change, which coincided with the vast political and social changes that were sweeping the continent.
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The owls of Athena: some comments on owl-skyphoi and their iconography
During the fifth century BC, Athens produced large numbers of red-figure skyphoi decorated on each side with an owl standing between two sprays of olive.1See F.
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Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed
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Sassoferrato at the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a Madonna in prayer of exceptional beauty and quality by the seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi, ‘Il Sassoferrato̵
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A Nabob’s return: the Pybus conversation piece by Nathaniel Dance
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a magnificent conversation piece of The Pybus family, c.1769, by the British artist Nathaniel Dance (1735–181
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Paola Pivi: You started it … I finish it
Continuing a recent series of major commissions by leading international artists for Federation Court at NGV International, Paola Pivi’s You started it … I finish it is an installation encompassing…