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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
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‘There is no modern furniture!’: Adolf Loos and the Viennese apartment of Jakob and Melanie Langer
Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe
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‘There is no modern furniture!’: Adolf Loos and the Viennese apartment of Jakob and Melanie Langer
Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe
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Napoleon, Emperor of the French and Charlemagne, King of the Franks
Although a thousand years (literally) separate Napoleon and Charlemagne, they have a lot in common: both ruled France; both created empires that united much of Western Europe; both crossed the…
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Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed
Join conservator Michael Varcoe-Cocks as he takes us behind-the-scenes, revealing the background and conservation of key artworks in Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed