When the NGV’s Felton Bequest adviser Frank Rinder recommended the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting, he warned the Gallery’s trustees that: ‘It would cause considerable disappointment were there…
Hidden treasures from Beijing’s Palace Museum in the Forbidden City will come to Melbourne for the first time, in an Australian exclusive exhibitio
Albrecht Dürer’s personification of the melancholic temperament in this print, one of his most famous works, shows a figure deep in contemplation, holding a compass and surrounded by an hourglass…
Identity and self-scrutiny, memory, and the inherent tensions of human relationships are the core of Louise Bourgeois’s ar
Identity and self-scrutiny, memory, and the inherent tensions of human relationships are the core of Louise Bourgeois’s ar
Qianlong Emperor, 1736–1795 tells the story of China’s foremost art collector Qianlong emperor, one of China’s most successful rulers and fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644
NGV Members receive Reciprocal benefits at all major interstate galleries including: The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) National Gallery of Australia (NGA) National Portrait Gallery Queensland Art Gallery…
Companies manufacturing and supplying artist’s materials, from the late Eighteenth Century onward, are known as Artists’ Colourmen.
Pablo Picasso is recognised as one of the most important figures in 20th century western art.
‘If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind i
Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901) is one of Australia’s most important landscape painters. TheEugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed exhibition recognises the enormous contribution he made to Australia
Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.
This unusual daguerreotype features two bare-knuckled young American pugilists standing in the balanced boxing stance.
For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.
This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.