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Exhibitions

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Rembrandt True to Life

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Rembrandt True to Life

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Fred Williams The London Drawings

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New Australian Printmaking

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Goya Drawings from the Prado Museum

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Goya Drawings from the Prado Museum

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International Art

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds

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Modern Australian Women Works from a Private Collection

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Baldessin / Whiteley Parallel Visions

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MoMA at NGV 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Japonisme Japan and the Birth of Modern Art

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Del Kathryn Barton The Highway is a Disco

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Our Knowing and Not Knowing Helen Maudsley

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Jim Dine A Life in Print

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John Olsen The You Beaut Country

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Jan Senbergs Observation–Imagination

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Bunyips and Dragons Australian Children's Book Illustrations

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Follow the Flag Australian Artists and War 1914–45

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The Kaleidoscopic Turn From the NGV Collection

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From the sacred to the profane The challenges and possibilities of Renaissance art

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Mambo 30 years of shelf-indulgence

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David Shrigley Life and Life Drawing

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Outer Circle The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists

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Bushido Way of the Samurai

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Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado

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Pastello – Draw Act

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Late Modern and Contemporary Art

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Textiles of Michael O’Connell NGV Collection Focus

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Print Works The Douglas Kagi Donation

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Contemporary Art & Design

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Robin Rhode The Call of Walls

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Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

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Dior and Yamamoto The New Look

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Captivating style 1950s Melbourne

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Contemporary Asian & Pacific Art

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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art

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The Four Horsemen Apocalypse, Death and Disaster

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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire

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The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910–37

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10 ways to look at the past

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This Wondrous Land Colonial Art on Paper

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Vienna: Art & Design Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos

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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

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Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine

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The Naked Face Self-portraits

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Contemporary encounters

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Imagining the Orient

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Stick it! Collage in Australian Art

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Chinoiserie Asia in Europe 1620–1840

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Building a Collection Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings

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Draw the Line The Architecture of LAB

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The Satirical Eye Comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier

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The cricket and the dragon Animals in Asian Art

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Making a mark Prints and drawings gifted by Ian Brown

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Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection

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Top Arts: VCE 2007

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Preserving the past, enriching the future Hugh Williamson’s legacy

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War The prints of Otto Dix

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Krishna Love and Devotion

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Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now New York–Venice–Bilbao–Berlin

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Imaginary Prisons G.B. Piranesi and Vik Muniz

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Top Arts: VCE 2006

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Cinema India The Art of Bollywood

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Proof Contemporary Australian Printmaking

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Picture to Print Reproductive prints in the NGV Collection

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Melbourne International Arts Festival: Brook Andrew YOU'VEALWAYSWANTEDTOBEBLACK

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Charles Blackman Alice in Wonderland

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Rembrandt 1606-1669 From the Prints and Drawings collection

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Top Arts: VCE 2005

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Martin Grant Paris

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DRAWN From the Collection

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British Art & the 60s from Tate Britain

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This & Other Worlds Contemporary Australian Drawing

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Albrecht Dürer Master of the Renaissance

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Top Arts: VCE 2004

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Pictures of the Floating World Japanese Prints from the Collection

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Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules

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Shashin Nineteenth–century Japanese Studio Photography

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Grotesque The Diabolical and Fantastic in Art

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Edvard Munch The Frieze of Life

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15 Minutes of Fame 20 Years of Pop Prints

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Allan Mitelman Works on Paper 1967-2004

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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque

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2004 Australian Culture Now

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From Paris with Love The Graphic Arts in France 1880s-1950s

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Top Arts: VCE 2003

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Lionel Lindsay An Antipodean in Spain

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Resonance Highlights of the Asian Collection

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Fraught Tales Four Contemporary Narratives

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Peter Booth Human/Nature

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Sidney Nolan Desert and Drought

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Pen to Pixel 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings

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Spring Flowers, Autumn Grass

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Top Arts: VCE 2001

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From the World of Beautiful Shadows The circle of Julia Margaret Cameron in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Top Arts: VCE 2000

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Top Arts: VCE 1999

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Tyger of Wrath William Blake in the National Gallery of Victoria

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1999 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award MOMA at Heide

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Treasures of Asian Art Selections from the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York

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Look Again Contemporary Prints and Drawings from the Collection

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Reason and Folly The Prints of Francisco Goya

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Psychogeographica: Mapping the Interior Recent Work by Ruth Johnstone

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Worlds in Miniature Etchings of Jacques Callot and Wenceslaus Hollar

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Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection

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Rembrandt Etchings in the National Gallery of Victoria

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In Relief Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts

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Modern Masters from the Museum of Modern Art The William S. Paley Collection

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Beauty in Truth The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones

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British Watercolours and Drawings in the Age of Turner

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Fred Williams A Working Method

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Renaissance Drawings from the Uffizi

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Being and Nothingness Bea Maddock – Work From Three Decades

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Uncommon Australians Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery

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The Landscape Mezzotints of Turner and Constable

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Toulouse-Lautrec Prints and Posters from the Bibliotēque Nationale

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Albert Tucker A Retrospective

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Donald Friend 1915–1989 Retrospective

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Renaissance to Baroque Italian Art from the Collection

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William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Australian Legal Group Print Collection

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A Study in Genius Master Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle

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Masterpieces from the Hermitage, Leningrad Western European Art of the 15th - 20th Centuries

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Salsipuedes John Walker Monotypes

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Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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Edvard Munch: Death and Desire

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Backlash The Australian Drawing Revival 1976–1986

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Colour and Transparency The Watercolours of Lesley Dumbrell, Robert Jacks, Victor Majzner

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Turner Abroad France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland

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Victorian Vision 1834 Onwards

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The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition

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Town, Country, Shore & Sea British Drawings and Watercolours from Anthony Van Dyck to Paul Nash

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Leonardo da Vinci Anatomical Drawings from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle

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The Artist and the Printer Lithographs 1966–1981

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Some Recent Acquisitions 1979–1981

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Australian Drawings of the Thirties and Forties in the National Gallery of Victoria

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The Craft of the Book

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The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle

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Rembrandt Etchings

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Illusion and Reality

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M. Napier Waller 1893-1972

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Master Drawings from the Albertina

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Jean Arp Sculpture, Reliefs, Works on Paper

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From France A Selection of Works from the Department of Prints and Drawings

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Sol LeWitt Wall drawings at Sydney and Melbourne

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Australian Landscape Drawing 1830 – 1880 in the National Gallery of Victoria

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Barlach / Kollwitz Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz

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David Hockney Prints Selected from the Collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra

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British Artist’s Prints

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Twelve Australian Lithographers

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Tamarind Homage to Lithography

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17th Century Pastoral Holland Master prints and drawings from the Rijksmuseum with landscapes from the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria

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Picasso Master Printmaker

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Dürer and his time

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Stanislaw Halpern Retrospective Exhibition

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Arthur Boyd’s Australia

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Lloyd Rees Retrospective

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The Print Council of Australia Third Print Prize Exhibition 1969

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Banners from New York

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The Aubrey Gibson Collection

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Portraits of Newsmakers Commissioned for the Covers of TIME, The Weekly News Magazine

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Marcel Duchamp The Mary Sisler Collection, 78 works 1904–1963

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Emilio Greco Sculpture, Drawings and Prints

Essays

Travelling Scholarship: Constance Jenkins

Absurd Realities

Martin King: Strangerlands II

The 30s–Windshield

Tobit burying the dead Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Saint Prosdocimus baptizing St Giustina Giambattista Tiepolo

Fred Williams: The London Drawings

St John the Baptist Giulio Campagnola

I Francesco Clemente

Extensive landscape with a castle Domenico Campagnola

Leaf from a Universal Chronicle: eight famous men Unknown

The Metropolis and Desire: Modernist Photobooks Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

William Blake: Romantic visionary

A technical examination of William Blake’s Virgil wood engravings

William Blake and the NGV: the history of the Virgil wood engravings

The thought of the horse Enzo Cucchi

Still life with drapery Giorgio Morandi

Centaur carrying off a female faun Giandomenico Tiepolo

Rembrandt Abraham Francen, apothecary and Studies of the head of Saskia and others

The well Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Capriccio: a tomb by a lagoon Canaletto

Diana Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Caryatid Amedeo Modigliani

Study for an ignudo Annibale Carracci

Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria

Elisabetta Sirani’s Head of a child

Head of a child (recto); Study for an allegorical composition (verso) Elisabetta Sirani

Huntsman sounding his horn with a staghunt in the distance Parmigianino

The Annunciation Federico Barocci  

Massacre of the Innocents   Marcantonio Raimondi  

Battle of the sea gods: right half of a frieze   Andrea Mantegna

Battle of the nudes Antonio Pollaiuolo

Prime mover (Primo mobile)   Master of the E-series Tarocchi

Richard Estes Urban landscapes I

Goya’s Visions The universality of Goya’s art

Prisoners and internees

Selling Suffrage: Visual culture and merchandise

Oskar Kokoschka Die träumenden Knaben (The dreaming boys)

James McNeill Whistler The little lagoon

Georges Hugnet The seventh face of the die

Bunyips and Dragons: Australian Children’s Book Illustrations

Jess Johnson Outer head of the order (Vestibule incarnate)

Three illustrated publications by officers of the First Fleet

Rembrandt’s Shell – conus marmoreus L.

Observations on the red chalk figure studies of Baccio Bandinelli: two examples at Melbourne

Early watercolour of an Australian subject

Joy Hester’s Man in cork hat

Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s View of Piazza di Monte Cavallo

Jasper Johns’s Two maps I

Maurice Denis’s Amour suite

Print Works: The Douglas Kagi Donation

Thomas Girtin The stepping stones on the Wharfe, above Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

James Wallis An Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales

Wassily Kandinsky Small worlds VII

Videos

NGV Conservation: Rembrandt’s tools Rembrandt: True to Life

Curators Against the Clock | Picasso’s Sculptures The Picasso Century

Virtual Curator Tour | Goya Exhibition highlights

Goya’s tools and techniques A conservator’s view

Tattooing Goya Saturn Devours His Son

Goya | Exhibition Introduction Drawings from the Prado Museum

Examining William Blake’s watercolours A Conservator’s View

Whiteley’s Lasting Legacy Wendy Whiteley

Helen Maudsley Our Knowing and Not Knowing

Making books – a love of language and art Ron Brooks

Why I paint John Wolseley

The figure of William Barak Vernon Ah Kee

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

Learn resources

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Nifty Nōtan Levels 3-6

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Introduction to ukiyo-e and kabuki Levels 5-8

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Figurative Flora Print: Inspired by Australian printmaker and painter Margaret Preston Levels 5-8

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Make your mark: Design your own Japanese inspired emblem Levels 5-6

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Creative Educators: Block Printing with handmadelife – eBook Resource Levels 7-12

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Bushido: Way of the Samurai | Language Resource for Japanese Students Levels P-6