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To see a world in a grain of sand: a closer look at the ‘Melbourne Blakes’
Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
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A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
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Between Beauty and Power: Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman as an emblem of the National Gallery of Victoria’s modernity, 1959–68
On 3 June 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria’s deputy director, Gordon Thomson, announced to the public the Felton Bequests’ Committee recent acquisition of Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman (fig&#
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Paysages de Mer: Courbet’s The wave
In 1923 Frank Rinder, the international Felton Adviser for the National Gallery of Victoria, discovered a painting titled The wave (La vague) at an exhibition in London (fig. 1).
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The Melbourne Finding of Moses: steps towards a new attribution
The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.
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Two New Attributions: a Tocqué and a Bellotto in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…
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Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman
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…
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Relics of Another Age: Art History, the ‘Decorative Arts’ and the Museum
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…
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Index 1945–2010
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
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A Processional cross attributed to Bernardo Daddi and his workshop
As a small and fragmentary work of art, the Processional cross (figs 1 & 2) in the National Gallery of Victoria has not received a great deal of attention from…
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The Trinitarias carpet: early masterpiece or modern reproduction?
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
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When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project
The Felton Commissions (The Barak Project) was conceived as part of an ambitious three-tiered program that celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary through a specific focus on the…
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Kohei Nawa’s PixCell-Red Deer
Kohei Nawa is one of Japan’s new generation of high-flying young artist
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In search of immortality: provisions for the afterlife
Introduction The National Gallery of Victoria holds Australia’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Chinese archaeological treasures, which consist of jades, bronze mirrors, ritual bronze vessels, pottery vessels and figurines…
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Rover Thomas Yunurr (Spring Creek)
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired through the Felton Bequest Yunurr (Spring Creek), 1991, by Rover Thomas, an acknowledged leader of the Warmun School of Painting in the…