The earliest, and certainly one of the most intriguing, nineteenth-century Australian photographs in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection is a daguerreotype of three Victorian Aborigines taken by Dougla
The mid-nineteenth-century English artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria by a group of important paintings and works on paper.
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance
After a century of civil wars, the Tokugawa shoguns (military rulers) of the Edo period (1615–1868) unified Japan and brought about more than 250 years of peace and prospe
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
One of the themes which most preoccupied the creative talents of Albrecht Dürer is that of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Chi
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
‘Clothes,’ said Miss Proctor, sitting in that white-walled studio of hers where the woodcuts make such attractive spashes [sic] of yellow and magenta and vermilion, ‘fashionable clothes are too much t
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…
The National Gallery of Victoria owns a small, yet important, collection of incunabula and early printed books dating from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1See
John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney, 1887, came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1943 (fig. 1
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.