The richly illuminated prayer-book known as the Aspremont Psalter-Hours has long been recognised as an important example of manuscript production from the Lorrai
This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1
One of the themes which most preoccupied the creative talents of Albrecht Dürer is that of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Chi
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
‘Clothes,’ said Miss Proctor, sitting in that white-walled studio of hers where the woodcuts make such attractive spashes [sic] of yellow and magenta and vermilion, ‘fashionable clothes are too much t
When Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906), nineteenth-century architect and nephew of the eminent Victorian connoisseur Sir Charles Eastlake, came to the subject of modern glass in his famous Hints on Household Taste – a treatise…
The National Gallery of Victoria owns a small, yet important, collection of incunabula and early printed books dating from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1See
John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney, 1887, came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1943 (fig. 1
During the sixteenth century, glassmaking in Europe underwent a significant change, which coincided with the vast political and social changes that were sweeping the continent.
The National Gallery of Victoria has just acquired two extremely important sketchbooks by the great nineteenth-century Kwat Kwat artist Tommy McRae, c.1836–190
Reading The Face magazine in early 1984 I was overwhelmed by a double-page spread entitled The New Glitterati featuring Leigh Bowery photographed in his ‘Paki from outer space’ look
In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed
During the eighteenth century painted and engraved views of Rome were popular among visitors to the city, in particular the wealthy young Englishmen who roamed the Continent on what was known as…
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