Tom Roberts’s large canvas, Shearing the rams (fig. 1) is popularly seen today as an archetypal vision of Australian pastoral li

Nothing is more exciting for the lover of art than the totally unexpected appearance of a masterpiece by a great artist. That two such masterpieces by J. M. W

The Anne Schofield Collection of costumes and accessories was purchased in 1974 with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria.

The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…

One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…

Brian Finemore was one of the handful of students who enrolled in the first year (1948) of the Fine Arts course in the University of Melbourne, so that this brief…

The National Gallery of Victoria is unique amongst the public galleries of Australia in its efforts to build up a fine and representative collection of decorative arts

The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.

In 1925 Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart1Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born on 17 November 1899 in Osnabruck, Germany. He died on 19 December 1962 in Ulm.

In 1879, when he was just thirty-one years of age, the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honour, signalling the immense breadth of his popularity

When Boccaccio wrote his book, De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women) (after 1351), Cleopatra was the epitome of Luxuria, that medieval vice pictured as a bejewelled naked women, the embodiment of extravagant…

   According to Henry-Claude Cousseau, Jean Dubuffet went to the Sahara in 1947, 1948 and 1949 hoping to find a new provocation for his work.1 H

In a lecture at the Pratt Institute in 1958 Mark Rothko explained that ‘it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purpose

Boucher was one of those men who indicate the taste of a century, express, personify, embody it. In him, French eighteenth-century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of its character

Download This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 1968–69 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collect