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The paper trail: a study of watermarks in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of Albrecht Dürer prints
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is an important repository for Albrecht Dürer’s prints.1This extraordinary print collection is viewable via the NGV’s Collection On
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NGV Announces More Than 100 Artists and Designers For NGV Triennial
NGV International | 19 December 2020 – 18 April 2021 | Free entry Thursday 8 October 2020: Exploring some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including…
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Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story
X-radiography: a long history With a history going back over a hundred years, X-radiography is one of the oldest technical examination methods for paintings and other cultural objects.
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Yellow fields
Henry Inlander was born in Vienna on 14 January 1925.
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Virginian partridges
A self-trained artist, Cedric Morris absorbed influences from a wide variety of artists and sources, living in artistic communities in Cornwall and Paris in the 1920s.
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Portrait of a boy (Robin)
This exquisite painting is a portrait of Robin John, the third son of Augustus John’s first wife, Ida Nettleship, at the age of fifteen or sixtee
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Widowed
Throughout the 1870s, Frank Holl specialised in painting grieving widows, mothers lamenting the deaths of infants, and grimly realistic funeral cortèges
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The house of Derain at Chambourcy (La Maison de Derain, Chambourcy)
An English artist who joined the French Social Realist movement in the mid 1950s, James Taylor enjoyed success as a sensitive painter of urban views, especially architectural rooftops, before relocating…
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Unheard Spaces
Philip Samartzis is a sound artist, scholar and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities.
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Pataikos, slayer of snakes
To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…
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Making sense of nonsense: pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance maiolica dish
At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…
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Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the art of portraiture, Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, the Countess of Southampton (1603-1640) is a superlative example…
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NGV’S DROP-BY DRAWING PROGRAM GOES VIRTUAL WITH ONLINE DRAWING TUTORIALS FROM AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS
Friday 3 April: The National Gallery of Victoria is delighted to launch a new four-part virtual series of its popular Drop-by Drawing
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Divergent Ambitions: The Door of Hope Mission in early twentieth-century Shanghai
‘O Auntie, I must tell you What Precious said today: I heard her tell the children While at their merry play She would not mind if Jesus Would send her…
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Women of Industry: Frances Burke and Joyce Coffey
For much of the twentieth century, women’s participation in the industrial design profession was limite