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To see a world in a grain of sand: a closer look at the ‘Melbourne Blakes’
Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
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This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
Edition 44
This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
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Sue Ford
The ground-breaking work of Australian photographer and filmmaker Sue Ford will be explored in a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 17 April.
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NGV announces The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
“ I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many…
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A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
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Obituary: Dr Eric Westbrook, CB 1915–2005
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner
Steiner eurhythmy and modernist visual arts The aesthetics of eurhythmy as they were first outlined by the modernist dramaturge and Christian mystic, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), were cogently realised within Roger…
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An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
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Paysages de Mer: Courbet’s The wave
In 1923 Frank Rinder, the international Felton Adviser for the National Gallery of Victoria, discovered a painting titled The wave (La vague) at an exhibition in London (fig. 1).
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Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
In the late 1830s the young brothers Jeremiah, Joseph and John Ware, the eldest just twenty years of age, had played a major role in the settlement of the Western…
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Loretta Lux’s The drummer
In The drummer a young child of ambiguous gender stares fiercely at the viewer while clenching two batons above a red-and-white lacquered tin drum.
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Raising the Flag of Modernism: Ben Nicholson’s 1938
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently added to its collection a painting that encapsulates one of the most complex, dynamic and contested moments in the history of modern British…
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Military Objectives: Some reflections on the forgotten Second World War artist Louis Duffy
The heavy rescue squads of the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) were a common sight in London and other major cities of Great Britain during the Blitz of 1940–41 following each…