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.

To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…

At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…

‘Australians will stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shillin

In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…

Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today.

The German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.

In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.

This essay was commissioned for and originally published in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of NGV Magazine.

This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…

Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern