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Revisiting Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall
Canaletto’s Bacino di S. Marco (fig. 1), acquired through the Felton Bequest in 1986, can be a problematic painting, both in terms of what we know about it and our response…
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No Form Can Be Spatial, The origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept
In the first half of the 1960s, the Argentine–Italian artist Lucio Fontana created Spatial concept (fi
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Paola Pivi: You started it…I finish it
A sleuth of giant, fluorescent and feathered free-spirited polar bears will greet visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Court this winter in a major suite of new sculptural…
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Melbourne Winter Masterpieces: Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal, Court Museo Del Prado
The finest collection of Italian masterpieces ever to come to Australia will be unveiled at the National Gallery of Victoria on 16 May.
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Art of the Table
Introduction Porcelain plates, silver cutlery, sparkling glassware – a well-laid dining table is a work of ar
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A Paestan Vase by Python: In memory of Dale Trendall
About eighty kilometres south of Naples, a traveller will come upon the extensive ruins of an ancient Greek town with an impressive fortification wall some 4.
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
The National Gallery of Victoria’s collection has been significantly augmented with the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a well-known masterwork by Jusepe de Ribera, one of the most influential figures of…
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The Melbourne Finding of Moses: steps towards a new attribution
The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.
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Two New Attributions: a Tocqué and a Bellotto in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…
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Melbourne Now Design Residency: Bolwell EDGE Caravan Studio
Residency #3 Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli of Mathery Studio Designers Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli of Mathery Studio left Italy little more than one year ago, arriving in Australia…
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NGV announces 2014 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
Today, Tony Ellwood, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, together with the State Government of Victoria and Art Exhibitions Australia announced next year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Italian Masterpieces…
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Italian Masterpieces from Spain’s Royal Court, Museo del Prado
The holdings of Italian art in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid are unique and unrivalled in museums outside Italy. Drawn from its magnificent collection, this exhibition of over 70 paintings and 30 drawings presents a rich selection of works spanning 300 years of Italian art, from the early sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
The exhibition is organised by Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid in
association with the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Exhibitions
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The Ancient World – antiquities return to the NGV
Following a three year hiatus, antiquities will return to the National Gallery of Victoria with the refurbished permanent gallery space The Ancient World.
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The Ancient World
NGV’s exciting new Ancient World gallery showcases works from ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Italy and Mesoamerica. Situated on Level 2 of NGV International, in the heart of the Gallery’s permanent collections, the collections are displayed across three areas, encompassing Mesoamerica, The Classical World and Egypt and the Near East. The two corridor cases that flank the gallery feature representative tomb groups from West Mexico and ancient Eg