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.

While sumo wrestlers originally competed in sponsored tournaments within the grounds of shrines and temples in Japan, by the early 1780s sumo wrestling had become an integral part of Japanese…

Shaun Gladwell’s hypnotic video Midnight traceur, 2011, features parkour practitioner Ali Kadhim as he dexterously negotiates the urban landscape of Sydne

The NGV’s holdings of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates are world renowned. They are richly varied and represent all media in which this remarkable group of artists worked. The collection reflects the role of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, their place in the development of the illustrated book and their profound influence on later generations of artist

On Friday 20th June, 120 young creative minds from 12 primary schools excitedly gathered in small groups around works of art throughout National Gallery of Victoria International as part of the…

The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture  – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…

Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.

The illuminated manuscript known as the Aspremont Hours which was purchased at Christie’s in 1922 for the National Gallery of Victoria warrants attention on several counts.1M

   The following article offers some new observations concerning the dating, iconography, and artistic context of an Italian painting that was purchased by the Gallery in 1961 (fig.

Nothing is more exciting for the lover of art than the totally unexpected appearance of a masterpiece by a great artist. That two such masterpieces by J. M. W