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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
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Obituary: Dr Eric Westbrook, CB 1915–2005
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner
Steiner eurhythmy and modernist visual arts The aesthetics of eurhythmy as they were first outlined by the modernist dramaturge and Christian mystic, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), were cogently realised within Roger…
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An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
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Paysages de Mer: Courbet’s The wave
In 1923 Frank Rinder, the international Felton Adviser for the National Gallery of Victoria, discovered a painting titled The wave (La vague) at an exhibition in London (fig. 1).
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Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
In the late 1830s the young brothers Jeremiah, Joseph and John Ware, the eldest just twenty years of age, had played a major role in the settlement of the Western…
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Loretta Lux’s The drummer
In The drummer a young child of ambiguous gender stares fiercely at the viewer while clenching two batons above a red-and-white lacquered tin drum.
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Raising the Flag of Modernism: Ben Nicholson’s 1938
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently added to its collection a painting that encapsulates one of the most complex, dynamic and contested moments in the history of modern British…
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Military Objectives: Some reflections on the forgotten Second World War artist Louis Duffy
The heavy rescue squads of the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) were a common sight in London and other major cities of Great Britain during the Blitz of 1940–41 following each…
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Depictions of Aboriginal People in Colonial Australian Art: Settler and unsettling narratives in the works of Robert Dowling
The near absence of Indigenous people in mid-nineteenth-century colonial painting has been one of the most potent assertions of continued settler presence in Australia.
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The Melbourne Finding of Moses: steps towards a new attribution
The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.
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Two New Attributions: a Tocqué and a Bellotto in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…
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Japanese Horse stable
Folding screens are called byobu in Japanese, meaning protection against (byo) the wind (bu).
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 28
In Melbourne Now we are featuring a recent body of photographic collages by local artist Christopher Day, from his Permanent Deferral series of 2013.