This marble torso is an outstandingly well-preserved representation of an athletic male body in its prime.

Many viewers of the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster Troy were disappointed to see its erasure of one of the great love stories to come down to us from antiq­uity

The Emperor Septimius Severus (AD 193–211) was also a soldier whose power was very much based on the support of the army, but this portrait represents him as a philosopher–statesman…

Originally born in Spain, Mariano Fortuny relocated to Venice with his family in 1889, where he remained for the rest of his life.

The enigmatic Giorgio de Chirico said of his work that he was ‘painting that which cannot be seen

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…

Buddhism is the oldest of all the major religions practised around the world in the twenty-first century.

We interviewed Angel Deradoorian, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 15 April 2016

Throughout the nineteenth century the Minton ceramic manufactory in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford-shire, England, was at the forefront of taste and innovation.

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…

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…

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

   This Melbourne painting (fig. 1)* belongs to a group of pictures by Fuseli depicting episodes in the life of Milt

For those trapped inside the canons of classical Greek sculpture, the large hollow ceramic figures from Nayarit in West Mexico (figs 1–3) may seem ‘elephantine’,1For use of the adjective ‘elephantine’ in this…