Although isolated examples of Chinese porcelain were known to have filtered through to Europe in the Middle Ages it was not until the establishment of the various East India Companies…

In 1957 eleven Indian miniatures were generously presented by Major G. B. Walker as Rajput paintings

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

Note  In accordance with the tradition of Chinese handscroll painting, the illustrations on the blue-and-white Wine jar have a clockwise, directional

The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R

Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…

Among the rich collection of Indian paintings acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria through the Felton Bequest in 1980 are two large pictures depicting Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar…

The earliest, and certainly one of the most intriguing, nineteenth-century Australian photographs in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection is a daguerreotype of three Victorian Aborigines taken by Dougla

   The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour

Until recently, the question of the aesthetic principle has figured rarely in discussions of Aboriginal art

Fiona Hall was born in Sydney in 1953 and studied at the National Art School between 1972 and 1975

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.

In January 1999 the Gallery acquired a very important drawing, of large scale, by Wurundjeri artist William Barak, who from 1860 onward lived at the Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk,…