Many museum collections that have been built over a long time – collections such as that of the National Gallery of Victoria – contain works that have not been studied…
Norman Lindsay’s rare status as an Australian artist who is also a household name is the result of numerous factors
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a Madonna in prayer of exceptional beauty and quality by the seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi, ‘Il Sassoferrato̵
I have been trying to find time ever since the arrival of the Tiepolo to send you a lin
During the first three centuries of the Christian era, funerary artisans in the Roman province of Egypt produced a unique genre of mummy covering which reflected the multicultural society that existed there…
One must buy for the future, even against public opinion, although it is satisfying when you do buy a picture that’s popular … It’s important to get really top class thing
At the age of seventy-five the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting’ (gakyō-rōjin) as he railed against his mortality by declaring that…
In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a major painting by the French artist Bernard Buffet titled simply Owl, 1950 (fig. 1)
The new public prominence of Aboriginal art remains the greatest single revolution in the past quarter-century in Australian art
Early in 1905 the National Gallery of Victoria’s director, Bernard Hall, charged with making the first purchases for Melbourne under the terms of the newly granted Felton Bequest, travelled to England and…
Canaletto’s Bacino di S. Marco (fig. 1), acquired through the Felton Bequest in 1986, can be a problematic painting, both in terms of what we know about it and our response…
In 1944 the three Melbourne realist artists, Noel Counihan (1919–1986), Yosl Bergner (1920–) and Vic O’Connor (1918–) wrote, ‘We in fact work together as a group&
With the death of Dr Ursula Hoff in Melbourne on 10 January 2005, the National Gallery of Victoria has lost the person who, more than any other individual, shaped its…
Dr Emma Devapriam was born in Madras, India, on 5 August 1933. She joined the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974 as Assistant Curator of Asian Art.
Few acquisitions by the Felton Bequest have offered such drama, such expectancy and such a direct tribute to Alfred Felton