In 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria was fortunate to acquire from a private donor a painting by the distinguished British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904
In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.
This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…
Akio Makigawa was only fifty-one years of age, and at the height of his career as an artist, when he passed away in 1999.
Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…
A new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady For the past sixty years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Profile…
On 20 August 1968 the National Gallery of Victoria’s much-heralded building on St Kilda Road opened amid a fanfare of publicity acclaiming the completion of what all agreed was a…
We interviewed Pet Conspiracy, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 26 February 2016.
Blue: Alchemy of a Colour explores Asian and European works of art from the seventh century to the present inspired by the colour blue.
This dramatic image of animals engaged in mortal combat was a favourite subject for George Stubbs, one of England’s foremost animal painters at the close of the eighteenth centur
What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.
Gloves are highly evocative but also ambivalent. They serve to protect and conceal, attract and deflect, mimicking the human skin beneath with the embellished borrowed skin of another creature.
Among the most mysterious items in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance collection are two walnut wedding chests (figs 1 and 2
Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish-born artist who spent his entire artistic career in Italy, where he was the leading painter in Naples during the first half of the seventeenth…
Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.