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Still life painting ‘bloomed’ during an economic boom period in the Netherlands fuelled by imperialism, trade monopolies and the use of enslaved lab
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Modern Art and Design Innovators: 1930-1970, examines the rapidly shifting times of the mid-century, in particular, the women artists and designers who reimagined modernism and exported their radical new ideas…
The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim
Under the instruction of his first teacher José Luzán, Goya learnt the principles of drawing by making copies of print
Under the instruction of his first teacher José Luzán, Goya learnt the principles of drawing by making copies of print
Collaboration, friendship, inspiration, loss, love and connection. These themes filter through many artworks in the NGV Collection.
Madeleine Dore interviews a mindfulness teacher, an artist, a curator and NGV visitors about their experiences of the Gallery, and learns that art museums offer much to audiences seeking a…
Qualities of light and the cycle of day to night inform British artist and designer Faye Toogood’s reimagining of the NGV’s seventeenth-century Flemish, Dutch and British galleries, under the title…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia led to the flight of some two million Jewish people from the Russian Empire.
In the year 1911, at the age of 53, the famous Australian stage actress and pantomime artist Nellie Stewart sat for her portrait in the Melbourne studio of a young…
In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
Adriaen van Ostade is one of the most highly regarded Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century, after Rembrandt.
Adriaen van Ostade is one of the most highly regarded Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century, after Rembrandt.
Godfrey Kneller, born Gottfried Kniller in Lübeck, became the leading portrait painter in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Godfrey Kneller, born Gottfried Kniller in Lübeck, became the leading portrait painter in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Images of children receiving reading lessons are first found in seventeenth century Holland and neighbouring countries.
Images of children receiving reading lessons are first found in seventeenth century Holland and neighbouring countries.