A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance

This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1

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

In 1995, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Women’s Association generously provided funds to enable us to acquire a substantial group of rare and important nineteenth-century French photo

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

In about 1750 the young Johan Zoffany1He was born Johann Joseph Zauffalӱ at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1733, the son of the Bohemian-born Franz Zauffalӱ, who was originally a cabinet-maker, but later…

Imagine if you could spend two whole days in a gallery discovering the tricks of the trade of master artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo and understanding what they did…

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

Doug and Mike Starn’s photographic assemblage Sol invictus, 1992 (fig. 1), is a confronting reminder of the museum profession’s most feared, and ultimately indestructible, foe – the passing of

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…

Begun in the summer of 1899, Horses bathing in the sea belongs to the early part of Lucy Kemp-Welch’s career (fig. 1

The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.