BRICK
Medium
Hollow, from arch of Roman bath of time of Vespasian, discovered in City of Bath between 1879 & 1882
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Rev Joseph King, 1890
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
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Head of Gudea
IRAQ
Geometric wreath mosaic
NORTH COAST OF AFRICA, (Carthage)
Pelike (Gnathian ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Lekythos (Attic black figure ware)
GREECE, Athens
Miniature oinochoe (south Italian painted ware)
ITALY, (Apulia); XENON GROUP (attributed to)
Cosmetic palette
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva, Cemetery U, grave 54
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Lamp
(PALESTINE)
The Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, parts I-IV
John Sell COTMAN
Fragment of brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Amulet of a frog - Hekat
EGYPT
Unguent bottle
MEDITERRANEAN, (Egypt)
Medici vase
Stefano della BELLA
Jar
EGYPT
Jug (red polished I ware)
CYPRUS, Vounous
Unguent bottle
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL
Fragment of a door jamb
EGYPT
Phiale (South Italian Calenian ware)
ITALY, Calvi
Clay tablet
IRAQ
String of beads
EGYPT
Alabastron (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Stamped brick
IRAQ, Ur
Flat-bodied flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Titlepage
Wenceslaus HOLLAR
Cheek piece from a horse bit
IRAN, Luristan
Child's toy, doll
EGYPT
Pelike (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Jar
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN / GAUL
Jar
EGYPT
Head of Septimius Severus
ITALY