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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.
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Francesco, Giacomo and Giulio Francia Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses
Francesco Francia was the leading Renaissance painter in the Northern Italian city of Bologna.
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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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At the edge of empires: a Biedermeier portrait from Trieste by Jožef Tominc
The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…
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Kings Over the Water: Jacobite glass in the National Gallery of Victoria
In 1688 James II, the Catholic King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was ousted by parliament in the Glorious Revolution and fled to exile in France.
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Robin Rhode: Rough cut
A man pushes a mechanical lawnmower across a rocky surface alongside a rough stretch of wall