The x radiograph of Dame Nellie Melba reveals a significant shift in the position of the proper left arm – it has been revised upward into the current placement.

Most notable in the x radiograph of Lady in grey is the appearance in the background of another portrait of a woman looking directly at the viewer.

This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents five unique essays that focus on paintings, dating from the fifteenth century through to the late twentieth century,…

Thomas Woolner was born in the small market town of Hadleigh, Suffolk, in 1825, and commenced studies at London’s Royal Academy in 1842 while working as an apprentice to sculptor…

Introduction In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria made a significant addition to its growing and increasingly important collection of Surreal objects with the acquisition of Óscar Domínguez’s La couturière…

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

Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait   ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…

A new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady For the past sixty years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Profile…

The plain of Gennevilliers, yellow fields (1884) was acquired in 2011 with a recently constructed reproduction frame in a late nineteenth century classical revival style.

The form of this frame is similar to the John Thallon frame on Ramsay’s Self Portrait (smoking in front of piano), which dates to around the same time.

The group portrait of The Pybus family painted by Nathaniel Dance was acquired from descendants of the family in 2003.

The Self portrait of Rembrandt was first x radiographed in 1989. It was reshot in 2011, which is the image discussed here.

Rembrandt’s Portrait of a white haired man from 1667 is painted on a single piece of canva

The x radiograph was made when the previous lining had been removed and before the painting was re-lined, giving a unique image of the painting as an un-lined, un-stretched image….

The x radiograph of Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends reveals significant alterations to the dog in the lower right corner.