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).
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.
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…
The recent loan of Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on the occasion of the exhibition Degas: Master of French Art (12 December…
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…
A major $1.95m grant devoted to children’s programming and initiatives at the National Gallery of Victoria was announced toda
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
As a small and fragmentary work of art, the Processional cross (figs 1 & 2) in the National Gallery of Victoria has not received a great deal of attention from…
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
The Felton Commissions (The Barak Project) was conceived as part of an ambitious three-tiered program that celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary through a specific focus on the…
Kohei Nawa is one of Japan’s new generation of high-flying young artist
A two-metre high crystal-encrusted taxidermied deer was unveiled at the National Gallery of Victoria last night.
Introduction The National Gallery of Victoria holds Australia’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Chinese archaeological treasures, which consist of jades, bronze mirrors, ritual bronze vessels, pottery vessels and figurines…
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired through the Felton Bequest Yunurr (Spring Creek), 1991, by Rover Thomas, an acknowledged leader of the Warmun School of Painting in the…
It was no coincidence that in 1861 the National Gallery of Victoria was officially opened by the governor, Sir Henry Barkly, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, 24 Ma