Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1963 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: early masterpieces of Iranian pottery, a porcelain pouring bowl…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1962 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: bronzes from ancient Iran, a new drawing by Giovanni…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1961 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following topics: recent additions to the Greek vase collection, works by…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1960 presents a range of scholarly essays about the following works, artists and topics: The Countess of Southampton by Sir…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1959 presents an introduction by Director Eric Westbrook, an extended essay about the recently acquired Livy manuscript and a text…
Download The Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1964 encompasses essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…
The artist must be … encouraged to speak freely in the ‘language’ which he feels is essential to him for his self-expression, and we must try to learn the l
The story of Guernica is by now one of the most familiar in the annals of modern art
Towards the close of 1891, Odilon Redon wrote to express thanks to André Mellerio for his friendship, his connoisseurship and the support of his critical energies: My dear Mellerio, I got home yesterday,…
This Melbourne painting (fig. 1)* belongs to a group of pictures by Fuseli depicting episodes in the life of Milt
A figure study by Camille Pissarro recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria is not only the first drawing by this major draughtsman of the second half of the 19th century…
Sir Jacob Epstein’s reputation as a sculptor rests chiefly on his prolific output of exuberant and expressive portraits and, to an extent, has been consolidated by the frequent controversy attending the realisation…
In December 1982, The Art Foundation of Victoria purchased a group of 19th century photographs, including some large calotypes (from waxed paper negatives) by Dr John Murray and Captain Linnaeus Tripe, of…
The National Gallery of Victoria recently acquired its most important example of early Indian sculpture, a freestanding male figure produced at Mathura in north India during the Kushān period, 1st to 3rd…