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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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The Resurrection of The descent from the Cross : an early-sixteenth-century Antwerp panel is brought out of storage
Many museum collections that have been built over a long time – collections such as that of the National Gallery of Victoria – contain works that have not been studied…
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Major large-scale etching by Lucian Freud
During a career spanning over fifty years, Lucian Freud has established a reputation as one of the foremost figurative painter-printmakers of our time.
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Hugh Ramsay’s Jeanne
Hugh Ramsay studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1894 to 1899
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‘The heroine of all these scenes’: John Constable and the Rebow family in 1816
In the late summer of 1816, the artist John Constable was invited by his patron and friend, Major General Francis Slater Rebow, to paint a small landscape depicting the ‘Chinese Temple’ fishing lodge…
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Thumbs up or Thumbs down? The trials and tribulations of Norman Lindsay’s Pollice verso
Norman Lindsay’s rare status as an Australian artist who is also a household name is the result of numerous factors
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‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
In Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, 2000, the opening scene begins in reverse as a Polaroid photograph is vigorously shaken back out of exposure
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Tom Roberts’s By the Treasury
An effect is only momentary: so an impressionist tries to find his place.
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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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Malerie Marder Untitled
Malerie Marder is a Los Angeles-based photographer.
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The Madonna of the future O.G. Rejlander and Sassoferrato
For photography there are new secrets to conquer, new difficulties to overcome, new Madonnas to invent, new ideals to imagin
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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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Imperial fashion victims in provincial Egypt: re-dating Egyptian mummy potraits
During the first three centuries of the Christian era, funerary artisans in the Roman province of Egypt produced a unique genre of mummy covering which reflected the multicultural society that existed there…
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William Nicholson The black pansy 1910
William Nicholson was always torn between the need to paint society portraits to maintain his family and his love for humbler still lifes and landscape painting.