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Fiona Pardington: Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand 2010
Museums, archives and libraries are the repositories of stories.
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Persian Portrait of a prince examining an arrow (late 16th century-early 17th century)
This portrait was probably painted during the reign of Shah Abbas (1587–1629), whose rule marked a period of stability and consolidation within the Persian Empire and saw the capital at Isfahan…
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A discussion about Augustus Earle and some of his portraits
Of the many artists who worked in Australia after its discovery by Cook in 1770, Augustus Earle is one of the most versatile and interesting of the early ones
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Portrait of Maria Elizabeth O’Mullane and her children c.1852
The portrait of Maria Elizabeth O’Mullane and her children was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1976 from a distant cousin of Maria O’Mullane’s descen
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A profile portrait of a Renaissance woman in the National Gallery of Victoria
In keeping with Dr Ursula Hoff’s own practice and with the meticulous training she has urged upon her students, this short article offers thoughts arising from an examination of a single artefactR
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Portrait of a painter: a photograph of Conrad Martens by Freeman Brothers Studio, 1856
The generous provision of funds by the Felton Bequest recently enabled the National Gallery of Victoria successfully to bid at auction1Lot 21, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 17 April 19
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‘Rembrandt by himself’: a brief history of the Melbourne portrait of Rembrandt by an unknown artist
The National Gallery of Victoria has in its collection two paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz.
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Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of a young lady
This iconic linocut, based on Lucas Cranach the Younger’s 1564 Portrait of a young lady at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, is one of Picasso’s most famous and enduring statements in the graphic mediumR
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Unplugged Live: Portrait of an Artist
“Being involved in Unplugged has given me the opportunity to bring musicians into the surroundings of great Australian art where I can pay my respects to the two art forms…
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The sorcerer's machine: a photographic portrait by Douglas Kilburn, 1847
One commonly held prerequisite for a successful portrait is that it will convey something of the psychological life of the sitter.
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John Brack’s Self Portrait
John Brack is renowned for his images that explore the discipline of art and the social rituals and realities of everyday livin
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A Bernini self-portrait?
In 1976 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired from the dealer David Carritt in London a portrait of a young man, a work identified as a self-portrait of the young…
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The Multiple Worlds of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits
It does not seem unlikely to me that there is a total book on some shelf of the universe; I pray to the unknown gods that a man – just one,…
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II 1958
Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II is Picasso’s interpretation of a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younge
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Edward Burne-Jones’s Portrait of Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari