The garments worn by fashionable young women following the Revolution were famously dominated by muslin.
The National Gallery of Victoria today welcomed its 100,000th visitor to this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Napoleon: Revolution to Empir
A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition
This exciting exhibition draws upon diverse material from across all areas of the NGV’s rich collections to explore a range of living religious traditions found in the Victorian community today. With over 50 works of art, many rarely exhibited before, dating from the medieval period through to the contemporary, the exhibition looks afresh at religious practice and belief as seen through the eyes of artists past and presen
When you visit the Napoleon exhibition, look closely at the small black & white drawing by Naudet of Napoleon crossing the Alps at the Great St Bernard Pass, and amazingly…
The National Gallery of Victoria is celebrating Bastille Day Saturday 14 July, by offering visitors $10 tickets to Napoleon: Revolution to Empire from 5pm to midnight.
Napoleon at twenty-six was a dashing young Officer, whose star was rising fast in the Revolutionary Army.
On 2 June 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria will open this year’s spectacular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Napoleon: Revolution to Empir
Be inspired by the vibrant beauty of the luminous landscapes, glittering Parisian cityscapes and stunning portraits in this survey of the Neo-Impressionist movement. Forging a new path in the mid 1880s, Georges Seurat moved away from the earlier style of the French Impressionists, who had favoured the capturing of natural light and the first impression brought by a particular scene. Seurat preferred instead a more ordered and ‘scientific’ method of painting. This new method saw him place individual dabs of colour side by side on the canvas, rather than mixing colours together. When contrasting colours are placed side by side in this way, they oscillate against each other, creating an effect of shimmering light in the viewer’s eye. This regular repetition of colour touches brought an almost abstract visual rhythm across the painted canvas. Rejecting naturalism and the illusion of perspective, Neo-Impressionism later evolved towards ever more striking colour harmonies. The exhibition features spectacular paintings by Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Théo van Rysselberghe among others, and is the first of its kind to be staged in Australia.
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The National Gallery of Victoria today unveiled Nicolas Poussin’s The Crossing of the Red Sea after an intensive 12 month conservation project returning the 17th Century French masterpiece much closer…
The Hon Ted Baillieu MP Premier Minister for the Arts The 150th birthday celebrations may be over, but the gifts keep coming for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), with…
NGV Director Dr Gerard Vaughan today announced that in the National Gallery of Victoria had been declared the 25th most visited art gallery in the world in 2011.
On Sunday March 4 the National Gallery of Victoria says Goodbye Summer at the Gallery’s third annual free celebration of art and musi
After thirteen years as Director National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Gerard Vaughan today announced he would retire from his role as Director in July 2012.
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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire is a panoramic exhibition examining French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s. Its story runs from the first French voyages of discovery to Australia during the reign of Louis XV to the end of Napoleon’s transforming leadership as first Emperor of France. Book now at http://www.ticketmaster.co
Welcome to the online conservation treatment diary for Nicolas Poussin’s Crossing of the Red Se