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Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion
This October, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase the glamour and modernity of the Art Deco period through the work of fashion’s most influential photographer, Edward Steichen, and stunning…
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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.