The notion of ideal beauty exudes from this painting as Ingres deploys the purest forms of line and colour to compose a classicising image of silent sanctity.
Self-portrait in white jacket is a swaggering assertion of his self belief. Ramsay increases the sculputral impact of his strongly boned face with dramatic contrasts of lighting.
This sixteenth-century spouted vessel involves an elaborate and risqué visual joke. The form of the spout is of a dragon or serpent
William Frater was one of the earliest modernist artists in Melbourne, whose work was strongly influenced by Post-impressionism and Paul Cézanne
When Miss Susanna Gale (1749–1823) sat for Joshua Reynolds, she was just fourteen years of age, and had travelled to London, from her home in Jamaica, to complete her education…
Herbert was a popular artist in Victorian Britain who specialised in portraiture and illustration. In his later career he turned to painting romantic genre scenes and biblical themes.
This delightful portrait of the artist’s daughter, Susanna, shows why she was known to be a provocative beaut
In the 1630s, Thomas de Keyser was the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam, and his work was popular with the middle and upper classes of that city.
In his lifetime, Tocqué achieved fame for the unprecedented informality and unembellished naturalness of his portraits
The recent identification of the subject of this painting as Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) answered a long-running mystery. Borgia married Alfonso d’Este, heir to the duchy of Ferrara, in 1
Lina Bryans was an important part of the modern movement and a member of literary and artistic circles in Melbourne during the late 1930s and 1940s.
This striking portrait presents the renowned Italian castrato Carlo Broschi (1705–82), called Farinelli, when he was singing at the court in Madrid during the early 1750
This painting has long been clouded in controversy. Acquired as a self-portrait by Rembrandt, the work’s attribution has been questioned ever since its arrival in Australia in 193
The NGV has particularly rich holdings of eighteenth-century porcelain sculpture, including a number of rare and important works by Continental and English factories.
The National Gallery of Victoria presents one of the most recognisable and iconic paintings in the world, the exceptional and historic Portrait of the artist’s mother 1871, painted by master artist…