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Head covering of the mummy of Pedehorpasheriesi
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
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John Henry Connell: the man and his collection
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
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Thea Proctor in London 1910–11: her early involvement with fashion
‘Clothes,’ said Miss Proctor, sitting in that white-walled studio of hers where the woodcuts make such attractive spashes [sic] of yellow and magenta and vermilion, ‘fashionable clothes are too much t
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Zoffany as punster and prankster: some comments on his David with the head of Goliath
In about 1750 the young Johan Zoffany1He was born Johann Joseph Zauffalӱ at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1733, the son of the Bohemian-born Franz Zauffalӱ, who was originally a cabinet-maker, but later…
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Italian Masterpieces – Young Researchers
Imagine if you could spend two whole days in a gallery discovering the tricks of the trade of master artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo and understanding what they did…
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Download The first edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria features an introduction by Director Daryl Lindsay and discussion of the following works: Mary, St John…
Vol. 1, no. 1, 1945
Download The first edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria features an introduction by Director Daryl Lindsay and discussion of the following works: Mary, St John…
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A Renaissance reliquary collection in Halle, and its illustrated inventories
The National Gallery of Victoria owns a small, yet important, collection of incunabula and early printed books dating from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1See
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John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney
John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney, 1887, came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1943 (fig. 1
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Doug and Mike Starn’s Sol invictus
Doug and Mike Starn’s photographic assemblage Sol invictus, 1992 (fig. 1), is a confronting reminder of the museum profession’s most feared, and ultimately indestructible, foe – the passing of
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The reception of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the West
Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…
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Horses bathing in the sea by Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958): The painting's genesis
Begun in the summer of 1899, Horses bathing in the sea belongs to the early part of Lucy Kemp-Welch’s career (fig. 1
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An introduction to the paintings and watercolours by Julian Rossi Ashton at the National Gallery of Victoria
The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.
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George Romney’s sketchbook in the National Gallery of Victoria: the development of a new expressive vocabulary
The National Gallery of Victoria’s sketchbook by George Romney (1734–1802)1The sketchbook is a vellum-covered book measuring 19.8 x 15.9 cm and containing sixty-nine leaves. It was acquired through the Felton Bequest̷
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The Resurrection of The descent from the Cross : an early-sixteenth-century Antwerp panel is brought out of storage
Many museum collections that have been built over a long time – collections such as that of the National Gallery of Victoria – contain works that have not been studied…
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Major large-scale etching by Lucian Freud
During a career spanning over fifty years, Lucian Freud has established a reputation as one of the foremost figurative painter-printmakers of our time.