Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
The Art Bulletin of Victoria 45 contains an array of absorbing articles discussing various works in the NGV’s collectio
Nicolas Ghesquière was creative director of French fashion house Balenciaga from 1997 to 2012, where he frequently used elements drawn from active sportswear
“ I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many…
This education resource accompanies the exhibition Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed which presents a new perspective on the work of Eugene von Guérard, one of Australia’s most important landscape paint
Introduction Porcelain plates, silver cutlery, sparkling glassware – a well-laid dining table is a work of ar
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.
Steiner eurhythmy and modernist visual arts The aesthetics of eurhythmy as they were first outlined by the modernist dramaturge and Christian mystic, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), were cogently realised within Roger…
In 1923 Frank Rinder, the international Felton Adviser for the National Gallery of Victoria, discovered a painting titled The wave (La vague) at an exhibition in London (fig. 1).
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently added to its collection a painting that encapsulates one of the most complex, dynamic and contested moments in the history of modern British…
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…
The recent loan of Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on the occasion of the exhibition Degas: Master of French Art (12 December…