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The development of the collections of decorative arts in the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is unique amongst the public galleries of Australia in its efforts to build up a fine and representative collection of decorative arts
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The date of a rare blue-and-white wine jar in the Chinese Collection
Note In accordance with the tradition of Chinese handscroll painting, the illustrations on the blue-and-white Wine jar have a clockwise, directional
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The encounter of Baldessin and Tillers on an etching plate According to des Esseintes 1976
A post-Surrealist game of consequences and sequences followed the meeting of George Baldessin and Imants Tillers at the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1975
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Zhu Da: the mad monk painter
Zhu Da or Bada Shanren (1626–1705) (fig. 1), a noted eccentric, ‘had the genius of an immortal who disguised himself as a calligrapher and a pai
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Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
The latter half of the 1970s was a particularly busy period for Fred Williams: with his wife Lyn he made a number of trips to Europe and the United States; his exhibition…
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Lu Ji’s Birds in a winter landscape
The Birds in a winter landscape (fig. 1), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1990, is among the major works of Lu Ji (c. 1440–
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A souvenir of marvellous Melbourne: W. H. Rocke’s 1880–81 exhibition cabinet
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
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Japanese woodblock prints: a mass medium
After a century of civil wars, the Tokugawa shoguns (military rulers) of the Edo period (1615–1868) unified Japan and brought about more than 250 years of peace and prospe
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Noble lady's carriage and a flower cart from Japan, 18th century
This pair of screens illustrates the characteristic elegance, stylisation and flat surface design of Japanese art
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John Henry Connell: the man and his collection
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
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Rediscovering Beneath the arena – a major work by Karl von Piloty at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
When Karl von Piloty’s large canvas painting Beneath the arena, 1882, arrived in Melbourne in 1888 to be exhibited at the German Gallery of the Centennial International Exhibition, it was greeted with excitement and…
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White-robed Guanyin in a landscape
Surrounded by a moon-like halo, the visionary figure of the White-Robed Guanyin is shown seated in contemplation in a cave-like setting by a swelling ocea
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Rembrandt etchings on oriental papers: papers in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin
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The reception of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the West
Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…
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The sorcerer's machine: a photographic portrait by Douglas Kilburn, 1847
One commonly held prerequisite for a successful portrait is that it will convey something of the psychological life of the sitter.