Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait   ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…

A new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady For the past sixty years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Profile…

In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century English painted cabinet (fig. 1).

We interviewed Ngaiire, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 1 April 2016. Describe your sound in 5 words or less? Ever evolving extension of myse

It has been said that an ‘it bag’ is only an ‘it bag’ if you’re unlikely to eve

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

Sitting at a microscope in the textiles conservation studio at the NGV and looking at the intricately embroidered surface of the raised needlework panel of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria…

Exquisite Threads: English Embroidery 1600s–1900s, drawn predominantly from the NGV Collection, explores the role that professional and domestic needlework has played in the development and expression of English visual culture…

For many, the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design, with its functional yet humanist qualities, epitomises twentieth-century modernism.

Among the most mysterious items in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance collection are two walnut wedding chests (figs 1 and 2

Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.

This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,

Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.

THE FIRST LETTER In May 1971 Roger Cutforth, a British-born, New York-based conceptualist artist, wrote to Robert Rooney in Melbourne. THE FIRST LETTER, as Rooney inscribed on the envelope (fig….

Throughout the nineteenth century the Minton ceramic manufactory in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford-shire, England, was at the forefront of taste and innovation.