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Frame detail for Walter RUSSELLEnglish 1867–1949The music-hall (c. 1915)oil on canvas58.5 x 76.5 cmFelton Bequest, 1933 (4715-3)
Frames like this one, derived from French Louis XIV and XV models, are common through the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.
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Frame detail for Aby ALTSON – The Golden Age
The painting is one of the travelling scholarship pictures, (this one the scholarship for 1895) painted in Paris and despatched to Melbourne.
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The thinker was a principal element in Rodin’s Gates of Hell, the monumental project that derived from his 1880 commission from the French government for a pair of bronze doors…
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The thinker was a principal element in Rodin’s Gates of Hell, the monumental project that derived from his 1880 commission from the French government for a pair of bronze doors…
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Express Yourself! NGV Summer Children’s Festival 2015
10 days of free fun for kids and teens: Express Yourself! NGV Summer Children’s Festival 2015 A large-scale decorated billabong in the Great Hall inspired by opals and the stained…
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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
‘I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many years…
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Constance Jenkins, her painting Friendly critics and the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship
Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat
This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,
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Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
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Dream on: Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art goes to Paris
From 30 September 2011 to 12 February 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria and Museum Victoria presented Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
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Fiona Pardington: Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand 2010
Museums, archives and libraries are the repositories of stories.
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Contemporary artefacts and narcissistic robots: an interview with Wade Marynowsky
David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria: Nostalgia for Obsolete Futures is an amazing exhibition.
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Joseph Willems’s Chelsea Pietà and eighteenth-century sculptural aesthetics
The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…
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Paul Strand 1890–1976: milestone in photography
Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.
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The 13th century Psalter-Offices of Joffroy d’Aspremont
The illuminated manuscript known as the Aspremont Hours which was purchased at Christie’s in 1922 for the National Gallery of Victoria warrants attention on several counts.1M
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A discussion about Augustus Earle and some of his portraits
Of the many artists who worked in Australia after its discovery by Cook in 1770, Augustus Earle is one of the most versatile and interesting of the early ones