The former framing of Memling’s The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin, 1475, acquired in 1924, used an early sixteenth century Venetian style, pastiglia frame which had…

Herman van Swanevelt’s painting Thunderstorm (previously known as Italian landscape on a windy day) dated to 1649, was purchased in 200

The frame for Madox Brown’s The Entombment is carved in timber in a form referred to in Italy as Canaletto – in Great Britain more likely as a Lely frameR

The frame on Tiepolo’s The Finding of Moses is currently thought to be English, dating to the late eighteenth centur

The Correggio Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist, c.1514-15, was acquired in 2011.

The Garden of Love, c.1460, Studio of Antonio Vivarini, acquired in 1948, was housed in a nineteenth century Pre-Raphaelite style frame of wood and gilded composition.

On 20 August 1968 the National Gallery of Victoria’s much-heralded building on St Kilda Road opened amid a fanfare of publicity acclaiming the completion of what all agreed was a…

We interviewed Pet Conspiracy, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 26 February 2016.

 Can you see the tiny scorch mark left by the candle flame of a curious acolyte, from when the painting hung in a church in Italy?

After artistic training in their native Utrecht, Andries Both and his brother Jan travelled to Italy in the early 1630s.

This small altar intended for private devotion shows the Virgin and Christ child in the centre, flanked by St Catherine on the right and St Mary Magdalene on the left….

The painted decoration of this bowl includes a depiction of St Peter of Verona, patron of inquisitors and midwives, a celebrated early Dominican preacher in northern and central Italy who…

Plaquettes are small plaques made of bronze, brass, lead or precious metals.

‘Moderno’ is the pseudonym of the medalist Galeazzo Mondella, active in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centur

Although many medieval reliquaries were produced by lay people at great artistic centres such as the enamel workshops of Limoges, the production of reliquaries by members of religious orders remained…