Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was one of the most significant religious painters in eighteenth-century Venice, as highly regarded by his contemporaries as his younger colleague Giambattista Tiepolo.
Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani studied painting in Venice from 1903 to 1906.
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag
We find the path of an abstract painter an exceedingly difficult one here in Australia.
Surrealism is much more than an aesthetic. It’s really an attitude, or a set of attitude
Since 1994, Top Arts has showcased talented young artists at the National Gallery of Victoria.
New South Wales SOPHIE HONESS, ARTIST Jonathan Jones, mentor Sophie Honess, a Gamilaroi woman living and working on Gomeroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the challenges of translating…
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–65) was born into an artistic family in Bologn
Agnieszka Pilat’s Heterobota, 2023, tests our threshold for machines to exist outside of servitude and develop their own creative pursuit
One of a series of essays featuring the answers to questions posed to artists participating in the Megacities project of NGV Triennial 2023 In this third decade of the twenty-first…
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Tracey Emin’s practice is a radical reclamation of women’s claim to melanch
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Hoda Afshar uncovers and unveils.
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. “Bronze is a beautiful material that has a long and illustrious history.
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
The Emperor Septimius Severus (AD 193–211) was also a soldier whose power was very much based on the support of the army, but this portrait represents him as a philosopher–statesman…