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…
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.
The multidisciplinary artist Andrew Hazewinkel will be exhibiting a new installation of works in Melbourne Now.
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…
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
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’…
Thomas Struth is one of a number of photographers who belong to the so-called Düsseldorf School
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…
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.
Laith McGregor grew up in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in 2002.
Explore your creativity this September and draw alongside many of Australia’s much loved works by Frederick McCubbin, Charles Conder and Tom Robert
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;…
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…
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
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…