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Unknown No title (Two boxers) (1850s)
This unusual daguerreotype features two bare-knuckled young American pugilists standing in the balanced boxing stance.
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The National Gallery of Victoria’s Virgin and Child, by a follower of Jan van Eyck: a continuing reassessment
For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.
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The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat
This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,
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Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker
Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.
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Utagawa Yoshinku: Sumo Banzuke
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…
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Shaun Gladwell: Midnight traceur
Shaun Gladwell’s hypnotic video Midnight traceur, 2011, features parkour practitioner Ali Kadhim as he dexterously negotiates the urban landscape of Sydne
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Medieval Moderns
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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
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2014 Victorian Primary School Philosothon
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…
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Joseph Willems’s Chelsea Pietà and eighteenth-century sculptural aesthetics
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…
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Paul Strand 1890–1976: milestone in photography
Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.
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The 13th century Psalter-Offices of Joffroy d’Aspremont
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
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Prospero Fontana’s Holy Family with saints
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.
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A newly-discovered masterpiece by J. M. W. Turner
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
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Rembrandt’s Shell – conus marmoreus L.
In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s art was added by courtesy of the Felton Bequest to the fine collection of one hundred and twenty etchings by the master held in…
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Goya’s Caprichos
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich