RELIEF
Medium
The Virgin & Child, circular, painted, with border of cherub heads, in contemporary frame, Florentine
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
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
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Air spirit
SENOI people
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Shinto guardian, Zuijin
JAPANESE
No title (Sculpture Gallery, Infants in clamshell)
UNKNOWN
Hercules and Cerberus
ITALY; Francesco FANELLI (after)
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Head of Buddha
INDONESIAN
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Shadow figure
Hans ARP
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
A sculpture in metal, Vallauris, France
André VILLERS
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Sculpture of a pregnant woman, Vallauris, France
André VILLERS
Titlepage for Ornaments of painting and sculpture in the Apollo Gallery in the Louvre and the grand apartment of the King at the Tuileries Palace
Gérard Jean-Baptiste SCOTIN (engraver); Jean BÉRAIN the elder (draughtsman)
Manjushri with his consort Sarasvati
NEWAR people
Flower muzzle
Hans ARP
Piece LXVII
Anthony CARO
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
The victory of faith
St George HARE