This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 19 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collection. Highlights include: Frank
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 18 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Margaret Manion examines the illustrations in the marginalia…
The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.
In 1879, when he was just thirty-one years of age, the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honour, signalling the immense breadth of his popularity
Download This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 1973/74 encompasses essays that discuss works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Margaret Manion examines ‘things both new…
Download This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 1969–70 encompasses essays that examine works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection and galleries across Victoria: Leonard BR
In 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired, through the Felton Bequest, a particularly fine Florentine Book of Hours formerly in the Dyson Perrins collection.1 MS
La corrida toute entière baigne dans une atmosphere érotique – Michel Leiris, Miroir de la tauromachie,
The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R
A post-Surrealist game of consequences and sequences followed the meeting of George Baldessin and Imants Tillers at the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1975
When Boccaccio wrote his book, De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women) (after 1351), Cleopatra was the epitome of Luxuria, that medieval vice pictured as a bejewelled naked women, the embodiment of extravagant…
If we were not in the presence of the paintings, as we are so appropriately this evening, and were asked to describe the characteristic manner of Fred Williams, we would, perhaps, conjure…
Home again, painted in 1884 by Frederick McCubbin, is the major painting of the artist’s early work (fig.
According to Henry-Claude Cousseau, Jean Dubuffet went to the Sahara in 1947, 1948 and 1949 hoping to find a new provocation for his work.1 H
Boucher was one of those men who indicate the taste of a century, express, personify, embody it. In him, French eighteenth-century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of its character