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Three recently acquired Greek vases
During the past two years (1977–78) three notable additions have been made to the collection of Greek pottery in the National Gallery, each of which illustrates an aspect of Greek vase-painting not…
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Two Paintings by Huang Pin-hung (1864–1955)
The acquisition last year of two paintings by Huang Pin-hung (1864–1955) was made possible by the Felton Beques
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An Attic red-figured bell-krater
In April 1975, the important collection of Greek vases at Nostell Priory near Wakefield (England) was sold at auction.
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Three newly acquired symbolist graphics by Ensor, Aman-Jean and Munch
One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…
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A maiolica plate signed ‘F.R.’
By no means every plate in early 16th century Italy told a story.
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Bushido: Way of the Samurai
The art and culture of the samurai encompasses more than 800 years of Japan’s history and creative pas
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The development of the collections of decorative arts in the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is unique amongst the public galleries of Australia in its efforts to build up a fine and representative collection of decorative arts
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Recent additions to the collection of Greek vases
For the Greek vase collection in the National Gallery of Victoria the year between the spring of 1979 and the winter of 1980 must be regarded as an annus mirabilis, since…
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A note on Salvator Rosa’s study for The death of Empedocles
The sheet of studies by Salvator Rosa in the National Gallery of Victoria (fig.
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The date of a rare blue-and-white wine jar in the Chinese Collection
Note In accordance with the tradition of Chinese handscroll painting, the illustrations on the blue-and-white Wine jar have a clockwise, directional
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A Florentine Book of Hours in the National Gallery of Victoria
In 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired, through the Felton Bequest, a particularly fine Florentine Book of Hours formerly in the Dyson Perrins collection.1 MS
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Eroticism, myth and the bullfight: Picasso’s Femme Torero I and Corrida
La corrida toute entière baigne dans une atmosphere érotique – Michel Leiris, Miroir de la tauromachie,
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A new Greek vase of c. 700 B.C.
The momentous achievement of Greek art lies in its breakthrough from the Archaic style to the Classical, from the ‘conceptual’ to the ‘perceptual’ mode of visual ex
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Love among the ruins: two pastorals by François Boucher
Boucher was one of those men who indicate the taste of a century, express, personify, embody it. In him, French eighteenth-century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of its character
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Redon, Mellerio, Mantegna and the Melbourne Pegasus
Towards the close of 1891, Odilon Redon wrote to express thanks to André Mellerio for his friendship, his connoisseurship and the support of his critical energies: My dear Mellerio, I got home yesterday,…