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Rembrandt etchings on oriental papers: papers in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin
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The reception of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the West
Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…
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Unique pair of Chantilly porcelain figures
This apparently unique pair of Chantilly figures was last recorded in the Paris 1913 sale catalogue of the Halinbourg collectio
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An introduction to the paintings and watercolours by Julian Rossi Ashton at the National Gallery of Victoria
The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.
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From old world to new: English and Australian responses to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The vintage festival
In early 1871, two versions of The vintage festival were sent to Ernest Gambart, the prominent Belgian art dealer, as part of the second group of pictures he had commissioned from Sir Lawrence…
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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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A turreted berg : an Antarctic photograph by Frank Hurley
Gazing at the grey curtains of fog from the deck of our ship, so tiny in the surrounding vastness, we felt like Argonauts whose quest had led to the World’s…
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J. W. Waterhouse’s Ulysses and the Sirens: breaking tradition and revealing fears
In the picture which has been purchased for the National Gallery, Mr Waterhouse has selected for illustration the well-known passage in the twelfth book of the ‘Odyssey’ of Homer, in…
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Pierre Soulages, the Nouvelle École de Paris, and Painting 202 x 143 cm, 6 November 1967
Pierre Soulages is internationally famous as the most important living French painter of the postwar École de Paris. And yet, Soulages emphatically rejects this associati
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A Bernini self-portrait?
In 1976 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired from the dealer David Carritt in London a portrait of a young man, a work identified as a self-portrait of the young…
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Taboo or Not Taboo, the fashions of Leigh Bowery
Reading The Face magazine in early 1984 I was overwhelmed by a double-page spread entitled The New Glitterati featuring Leigh Bowery photographed in his ‘Paki from outer space’ look
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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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Minton’s Clock garniture
During the second half of the nineteenth century the British ceramics factory Minton enlisted the talents of many gifted designers and artisans to produce works in a range of ceramic bodies of…
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Malerie Marder Untitled
Malerie Marder is a Los Angeles-based photographer.
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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