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Diana
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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.
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Caryatid
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani studied painting in Venice from 1903 to 1906.
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Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
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
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When Crowley Met Balson
We find the path of an abstract painter an exceedingly difficult one here in Australia.
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Surrealism and Design
Surrealism is much more than an aesthetic. It’s really an attitude, or a set of attitude
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Top Arts 2024
Since 1994, Top Arts has showcased talented young artists at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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My Country
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…
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Elisabetta Sirani’s Head of a boy
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–65) was born into an artistic family in Bologn
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In the studio with Agnieszka Pilat
Agnieszka Pilat’s Heterobota, 2023, tests our threshold for machines to exist outside of servitude and develop their own creative pursuit
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Moving, working, flowing
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…
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Haunted objects
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
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The fold
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Hoda Afshar uncovers and unveils.
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Seeing ordinary men and women
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.
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Celluloid megacities
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Head of Septimius Severus
Italy
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…