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Nordic Cool: Modernist Design
For many, the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design, with its functional yet humanist qualities, epitomises twentieth-century modernism.
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Frame detail for Grace Cossington SMITHAustralian 1892–1984The bridge in-curve (1930)tempera on cardboard83.6 x 111.8 cmPresented by the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967 (1765-5)
The frame may originally have been left in the gesso to provide a bone-white surface.
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Titian A monk with a book c.1550
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…
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Nordic Cool: Modernist Design
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…
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Nordic Cool: Modernist Design
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…
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Marriage and murder: two wedding chests with representations of Judith
Among the most mysterious items in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance collection are two walnut wedding chests (figs 1 and 2
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Takahiro Iwasaki: Itsukushima Reflection Model
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…
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The National Gallery of Victoria’s Virgin and Child, by a follower of Jan van Eyck: a continuing reassessment
For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.
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Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
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A drawing by Battista Franco and its Venetian context
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.
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Ymage D’Alabastre: a medieval sculpture of Saint John the Baptist
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
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A Campanian phlyax vase
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…
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Rembrandt’s Shell – conus marmoreus L.
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…
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Goya’s Caprichos
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich
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A monotype by Degas: Madame Cardinal scolding an admirer
Madame Cardinal scolding an admirer is one of a series of monotypes made c.