SWORD
c. 1588
Medium
Armada period
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1910
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE
DECANTER JUG
CANDLESTICK
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
MEDALLION PORTRAIT
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
SPURS
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Windsor bench
(UNITED STATES) (manufacturer)
WINE CAN
Zurich (manufacturer)
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
INCENSE BURNER
Rockingham (manufacturer)
Belt buckle (Bust of a woman)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
JAR
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Blind faith
HJ Wedge
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES