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Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed
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Sassoferrato at the National Gallery of Victoria
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
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A Nabob’s return: the Pybus conversation piece by Nathaniel Dance
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a magnificent conversation piece of The Pybus family, c.1769, by the British artist Nathaniel Dance (1735–181
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Paola Pivi: You started it … I finish it
Continuing a recent series of major commissions by leading international artists for Federation Court at NGV International, Paola Pivi’s You started it … I finish it is an installation encompassing…
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Revisiting Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall
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…
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No Form Can Be Spatial, The origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept
In the first half of the 1960s, the Argentine–Italian artist Lucio Fontana created Spatial concept (fi
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Art of the Table
Introduction Porcelain plates, silver cutlery, sparkling glassware – a well-laid dining table is a work of ar
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A Paestan Vase by Python: In memory of Dale Trendall
About eighty kilometres south of Naples, a traveller will come upon the extensive ruins of an ancient Greek town with an impressive fortification wall some 4.
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
The National Gallery of Victoria’s collection has been significantly augmented with the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a well-known masterwork by Jusepe de Ribera, one of the most influential figures of…
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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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Melbourne Now Design Residency: Bolwell EDGE Caravan Studio
Residency #3 Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli of Mathery Studio Designers Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli of Mathery Studio left Italy little more than one year ago, arriving in Australia…
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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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A Powerful Appearance of Life: Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and child
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.