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Relics of Another Age: Art History, the ‘Decorative Arts’ and the Museum
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…
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A Powerful Appearance of Life: Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and child
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.
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Melbourne now countdown – day 68
The multidisciplinary artist Andrew Hazewinkel will be exhibiting a new installation of works in Melbourne Now.
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Edward Burne-Jones, Psyche and The Earthly Paradise
Then very Love knelt down beside the maid and on her breast a hand unfelt he laid, And drew the gown from off her little feet, and set his fair…
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 69
The NGV Women’s Association is proud to present Melbourne in a Moment, a half-day seminar featuring six of the artists included in Melbourne No
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Melbourne Now Countdown – day 70
Wired for Melbourne Sound opens 28 September, an exhibition that will see NGV Studio transformed into a recording space where a new EP will be recorded by a ‘super group’…
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Thomas Struth’s Pergamon Museum IV, Berlin
Thomas Struth is one of a number of photographers who belong to the so-called Düsseldorf School
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Monet’s studio boat
For Monet, painting water was a grand obsession and he was quick to have a boat built and equipped with a semi-enclosed cabin that he could use as a studio…
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Monet the cartoonist
As a teenager, at school in the port city of Le Havre, Monet preferred to draw caricatures of his classmates and teachers rather than pay attention in class.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 84
Laith McGregor grew up in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in 2002.
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Drop-by Drawing returns – Sundays in September
Explore your creativity this September and draw alongside many of Australia’s much loved works by Frederick McCubbin, Charles Conder and Tom Robert
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Index 1945–2010
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
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A Processional cross attributed to Bernardo Daddi and his workshop
As a small and fragmentary work of art, the Processional cross (figs 1 & 2) in the National Gallery of Victoria has not received a great deal of attention from…
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The Trinitarias carpet: early masterpiece or modern reproduction?
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
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Unknown dressmaker Wedding outfit
When Margaret Winter-Irving married Bruce Mead in Melbourne on 24 June 1925, she wore a gold and ivory gown of metallic brocade styled in the latest flapper look of the…