In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter
Sitting quietly on display in the Ancient Worlds Gallery on Level 2 is an exceptionally rare sculpture of the famous ancient Egyptian queen, Queen Nefertiti, principal wife of King Akhenaten….
When we talk of frame making, we commonly think of it as a stand-alone, specialist craft but this was far from the situation in early 18th century Paris, where the…
The commanding gilded frame surrounding Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras (1875) is a simplified trophy fram
Julian Rosefeldt creates visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.
To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…
At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…
‘Australians will stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shillin
In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…
Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today.
The German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.
In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.
This essay was commissioned for and originally published in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of NGV Magazine.
This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…
Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern