The large format of this painting from about 1527–30 would suggest that it was commissioned either by a wealthy patron or for a church setting. Its origins are unknown, however…

Francis Upritchard creates figurative sculptures and installations that reflect her interest in countercultures and the perceived failure of hippiedom in the 1960s and 1970s.

This small votive stela (inscribed stone slab) depicts private individuals worshipping a venerated deity.

This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1

During the first three centuries of the Christian era, funerary artisans in the Roman province of Egypt produced a unique genre of mummy covering which reflected the multicultural society that existed there…

A sixteenth-century religious landscape depicting the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is the first work by Venetian painter Paris Bordone to enter an Australian public art collection.

National Gallery of Victoria: Can you summarise the project and its objectives? Thomas Deverall: The brief called for a generously illustrated catalogue to accompany the 2024 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition…

Giovanni Ponti, known as Gio Ponti, was one of the most influential Italian designers of the twentieth century.

Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag

Many viewers of the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster Troy were disappointed to see its erasure of one of the great love stories to come down to us from antiq­uity

Born in 1963 in London, Tracey Emin CBE RA’s multi-disciplinary practice is powerful and divers

One of a series of essays featuring the answers to questions posed to artists participating in the Megacities project of NGV Triennial 2023 In this third decade of the twenty-first…

The story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, from the first century BC, was a popular  subject for artists in the eighteenth cent

There’s a rare kind of magic in how Kaylene Whiskey’s art practice brings joy to so m