Giovanni Franceso Romanelli was a major artist of the Italian Baroque period.

Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu (1585–1642), was the most powerful French statesman of his da

This eighteenth-century painting of a cellist is one of the most charming and intriguing portraits in the NGV Collection.

How long is it since we stretched out on a grassy patch to gaze at clouds? Remember Shakespeare’s Hamlet and his question to Polonius, ‘Is that not a camel, I…

Nestled within the permanent collection of French Impressionist paintings at NGV International, for the first time, the work of Japanese artists of the nineteenth century take centre stage to contextualise…

James Tissot’s enigmatic and visually lavish An interesting story, c. 1872, has been entertaining and delighting NGV patrons since it was acquired in 1938 with funds from the Felton Bequest…

The Scarf Dance (Le Jeu de l’Écharpe) series of porcelain figures by the Sèvres manufactory has become one of the most iconic expressions of the Art Nouveau style, embodying the…

‘What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.’1Paola Antonelli & Michelle Millar Fisher, ‘MoMA acquires the Rainbow flag’, Inside/Out: A MoMA/MoMA PS1 Blog, w

In 2021 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a pertinent mixed-media work by Gippsland-based artist Paul Yore.

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&#

From the sixteenth century onwards, global trade transformed the market for luxury goods in Europe.

Launched in a Milan nightclub in 1988 as part of a collection of three, the late Dame Zaha Hadid’s Wave sofa embodies the designer’s predilection for fluid architectural fo

The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim

The historical portrayal of women in art often prioritised the artist’s role, usually a male, rather than the female subject’s lived experiences and accomplishme

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…