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…
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,…
Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II is Picasso’s interpretation of a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younge
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
The recent loan of Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on the occasion of the exhibition Degas: Master of French Art (12 December…
The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…
It was no coincidence that in 1861 the National Gallery of Victoria was officially opened by the governor, Sir Henry Barkly, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, 24 Ma
On 23 June, NGV Studio will open 30 portraits 30 days, an exhibition that will see acclaimed Australian artist Vincent Fantauzzo undertake an artistic marathon by painting 30 inspirational Australians…
This December, the National Gallery of Victoria will open The Naked Face: Self-portraits, a compelling exhibition which takes an in-depth look at how self-portraits have shaped our perceptions of the…
The NGV announced today that it believes the subject of a mysterious Renaissance portrait it has owned since 1965 is Lucrezia Borgia, and that the painter is famed Renaissance artist…
The Venetian artist Jacopo Robusti is better known as Tintoretto, ‘the little dyer’, a sobriquet derived from his father’s role as a dyer of fabrics in the lucrative textile trade…
The story of these black-and-white photographs is carefully bound in a single manila folder that landed on my desk at the NGV on a Tuesday afternoon.
Saint Filippo Neri (1515–95) was a Florentine-born clergyman who worked as a lay preacher ministering to the poor and underprivileged long before he took holy orders in 155
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was one of the most significant religious painters in eighteenth-century Venice, as highly regarded by his contemporaries as his younger colleague Giambattista Tiepolo.