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.

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

1981 was quite a year. In the US, Ronald Reagan was sworn into office, and MTV went on the air. Britain thrilled to the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana….

In 2021 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a pertinent mixed-media work by Gippsland-based artist Paul Yore.

In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter&#

Sitting quietly on display in the Ancient Worlds Gallery on Level 2 is an exceptionally rare sculpture of the famous ancient Egyptian queen, Queen Nefertiti, principal wife of King Akhenaten….

When we talk of frame making, we commonly think of it as a stand-alone, specialist craft but this was far from the situation in early 18th century Paris, where the…

The commanding gilded frame surrounding Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras (1875) is a simplified trophy fram

Julian Rosefeldt creates visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.