Download Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1966–67 presents a variety of articles on the following topics:
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…
The artist must be … encouraged to speak freely in the ‘language’ which he feels is essential to him for his self-expression, and we must try to learn the l
In 1982 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch endowed the National Gallery of Victoria, through The Art Foundation of Victoria, with a generous fund to commission tapestries to hang in the Great Hall of the…
A figure study by Camille Pissarro recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria is not only the first drawing by this major draughtsman of the second half of the 19th century…
Download This edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria includes discussion of two stained glass panels: a French roundel of the 13th century and an English…
In 1982 and 1983 the Gallery made two significant additions to its small collection of contemporary Australian silver – a coffee service by Ragnar Hansen and a teapot by Hendrik Fors
The major frustration for students of the revolutionary 1940s has been that its most important work has remained largely hidden until the last two years
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 23 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…
On 10 March 1853 the French ship Vesta arrived in Port Phillip from Sydney, en route to Le Havre. Among the cabin passengers were ‘Mr and Mrs Montefiore and famil
Just prior to his death, the British Victorian watercolourist and traveller, turned Royal Academician, John Frederick Lewis (1805–76) stipulated in his will that his remaining works, apart from a bequest to his…
The history of painting since Manet (assuming that Manet’s Olympia is, as Malraux declared, the beginning of modern art) appears as a series of technical revolutions, competitively iconoclastic, tending to extremism, each…
Modern scholarship has increasingly focussed attention on the interrelationship of the arts, on the ways in which, for example, the visual arts may complement or inform literary discours
I have been devoted to Ursula Hoff ever since I met her at a time when both of us were engaged in graduate studies in the Department of Art History in…