For many, the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design, with its functional yet humanist qualities, epitomises twentieth-century modernism.
The frame may originally have been left in the gesso to provide a bone-white surface.
When the NGV’s Felton Bequest adviser Frank Rinder recommended the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting, he warned the Gallery’s trustees that: ‘It would cause considerable disappointment were there…
From Henning Koppel’s iconic silver Fish dish for Georg Jensen to the egalitarian designs of Finnish clothing company Marimekko, the timeless and classic beauty of Scandinavian design will be celebrated…
From Henning Koppel’s iconic silver Fish dish for Georg Jensen to the egalitarian designs of Finnish clothing company Marimekko, the timeless and classic beauty of Scandinavian design will be celebrated…
Among the most mysterious items in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance collection are two walnut wedding chests (figs 1 and 2
Japanese sculptor and artist Takahiro Iwasaki, renowned for his awe-inspiring, large-scale miniatures of ancient Japanese buildings and architecture, will unveil the latest epic work in his Reflection Model series at…
For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
The Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria possesses a small pen drawing1Pen and bistre: 20 x 21 cm, purchased through the Felton Bequest, 1923.
The alabaster image of St John the Baptist (fig. 1) held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria1 Felton Bequest 1923; Inventory number 1301/3 (D.A
The National Gallery of Victoria was very fortunate to be able to acquire in 1973, thanks to the generosity of the Felton Bequest, one of the finest extant Campanian phlyax…
In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s art was added by courtesy of the Felton Bequest to the fine collection of one hundred and twenty etchings by the master held in…
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich
Madame Cardinal scolding an admirer is one of a series of monotypes made c.