The Birds in a winter landscape (fig. 1), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1990, is among the major works of Lu Ji (c. 1440–

 Essential reasons for the extraordinary development of Dutch painting during the 17th century, according to Johan Huizinga, were ‘the intense enjoyment of shapes and objects, the unshakeable faith in the reality and…

A work which has remained in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria for many years is the small panel called Les jaloux  (The jealous ones) 496/2 (fi

The mid-nineteenth-century English artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria by a group of important paintings and works on paper.

The National Gallery of Victoria has in its collection two paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz.

In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching

The richly illuminated prayer-book known as the Aspremont Psalter-Hours has long been recognised as an important example of manuscript production from the Lorrai

The passing of Arthur Dale Trendall (1909–1995), one of the great classical archaeologists of our century and the leading international authority on South Italian vase painting and pottery, leaves a gap not easily…

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19

A major new acquisition by the National Gallery of Victoria through the Felton Bequest represents a late Hellenistic or early Roman adaptation of a statue by, or in the tradition…

Overview Paul Sérusier’s Boys on a river bank (fig. 1) was purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria through the Felton Bequest in 1948

A large proportion of the riches of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria have been acquired from major private collections of works on paper, through the Felton…

Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…

The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.

The National Gallery of Victoria’s sketchbook by George Romney (1734–1802)1The sketchbook is a vellum-covered book measuring 19.8 x 15.9 cm and containing sixty-nine leaves. It was acquired through the Felton Bequest̷