When recommending the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting by the celebrated Venetian artist Titian (born Tiziano Vecellio), Frank Rinder, the London-based adviser to the Felton Bequest, wrote in…

Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu (1585–1642), was the most powerful French statesman of his da

This eighteenth-century painting of a cellist is one of the most charming and intriguing portraits in the NGV Collection.

This portrait was formerly attributed to a number of artists, including Raphael, an artist in the circle of Correggio, and Paolo Morando.

Introduction John Thallon was the leading frame maker for artists in Melbourne from the 1880s well into the twentieth century.

Now in its twenty-ninth year, Top Arts, an annual exhibition presented as part of the Victoria Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s Season of Excellence, presents outstanding work from students – a…

Florence Henri was born in New York in 1893.

‘To write a good story, you have to bleed a littl

Joy Hester, a key member of the Heide circle of artists and the only woman in the Angry Penguins group, is best known for highly expressive figurative drawings, typically executed…

In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter&#

Now more than ever we are appreciating the way art can connect us to what it means to be human.

The National Gallery of Victoria is home to four paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–97), one of the most talented and innovative English painters of the eighteenth centur

Traversing Chinese philosophies, spiritual beliefs, associations with nature, art practices, use of materials and social and political movements, China – The Past Is Present emphasises the legacy of Chinese cultural…

From the sixteenth century onwards, global trade transformed the market for luxury goods in Europe.

Lavinia Fontana of Bologna (1552 -1614) is considered the first professional woman painter of Renaissance Italy, and proved an inspirational role model for her compatriot, the painter, printmaker, draughtswoman and…