The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is an important repository for Albrecht Dürer’s prints.1This extraordinary print collection is viewable via the NGV’s Collection On
X-radiography: a long history With a history going back over a hundred years, X-radiography is one of the oldest technical examination methods for paintings and other cultural objects.
Henry Inlander was born in Vienna on 14 January 1925.
A self-trained artist, Cedric Morris absorbed influences from a wide variety of artists and sources, living in artistic communities in Cornwall and Paris in the 1920s.
This exquisite painting is a portrait of Robin John, the third son of Augustus John’s first wife, Ida Nettleship, at the age of fifteen or sixtee
Throughout the 1870s, Frank Holl specialised in painting grieving widows, mothers lamenting the deaths of infants, and grimly realistic funeral cortèges
An English artist who joined the French Social Realist movement in the mid 1950s, James Taylor enjoyed success as a sensitive painter of urban views, especially architectural rooftops, before relocating…
To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…
At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the art of portraiture, Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, the Countess of Southampton (1603-1640) is a superlative example…
‘O Auntie, I must tell you What Precious said today: I heard her tell the children While at their merry play She would not mind if Jesus Would send her…
For much of the twentieth century, women’s participation in the industrial design profession was limite
In his 1954 autobiography Leda and the Goose, Tristram Hillier was to recall how in 1931, during a hiking trip with friends across the Pyrenees, he had his ‘first glimpse of Spain which seemed to me like a return to China … No grass, no trees, but only rock and tawny earth that stretched away to the shimmering horizon like a lion’s pelt ’. He especially loved the translucent light found in the country’s south, which he felt was invested with ‘a dramatic quality, both noble and cruel’. His Spanish landscapes, like Andalusian farm, 1949, are charged with electric energy and poised in breathless and eer
In 2017, when Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin-based Grafton Architects were announced as Artistic Directors of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, they released a curatorial statement…
In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.