NGV Italia

Discover stories of Italian art, design, culture and life in the NGV Collection through dedicated events and resources, and explore two millennia of Italian painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, decorative arts and textiles, brought together for the first time in this site.

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program programs event events 20241219 Italian Collection Highlights Tour

11.30am, 19 Dec, free entry

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Draw Like an Italian Master Levels 3–10

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Viva Italia All levels

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Allegory, parody and appropriation with Tiepolo’s The banquet of Cleopatra
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Designers and builders: Great art ideas for teachers, inspired by the Memphis Design Group
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The work of Amedeo Modigliani Eva Christoff talks us through the genesis of Amedeo Modigliani's Caryatid (c. 1913–1915)
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta’s pioneering drawings With Cathy Leahy
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The photographs of Les Gray Take a journey to 1970s Rome
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The apothecary jars in the NGV Collection With Imogen Mallia-Valjan
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Jacopo Amigoni’s Portrait Group: The singer Farinelli and friends (c. 1750-1752) With Dr Ted Gott
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Majestic Murano Join Professor Catherine Kovesi on a journey to Venice through the fascinating stories of its most famous export
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Lella and Massimo Vignelli The Compact range, 1960–64
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Gianni Versace A closer look at the iconic Evening Gown with Katie Somerville
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Jacopo Foggini Simone LeAmon shows us around Jacopo's resplendent 'Alice' armchair
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Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass
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Giambattista Tiepolo’s The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743–44 With Dr Ted Gott
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NGV Conservation The restoration of Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert, 1916
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Lavinia Fontana’s Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine (1574-1577) With Laurie Benson
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Formafantasma
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Elisabetta Sirani’s Head of a boy, 1653–63 With Dr Petra Kayser
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Crucifixion Prospero Mallerini
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Parure Italy, Rome
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Flagellation group Alessandro Algardi  
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Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends Jacopo Amigoni
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Love is blind Donato Barcaglia
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The Annunciation Federico Barocci  
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The Virgin attended by three holy women Antonio Begarelli  
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Ruins of the Forum, Rome Bernardo Bellotto
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The work of photographer Bruno Benini
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Cardinal Richelieu Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Countess Matilda of Tuscany Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Ghost, armchair Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi
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Pair of armchairs Andrea Brustolon
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Chair Carlo Bugatti
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Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta Canaletto
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Capriccio: a tomb by a lagoon Canaletto
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Study for an ignudo Annibale Carracci
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The finding of the true cross Cola dell'Amatrice
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Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist Correggio
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Yang Metamorfosi Carlotta de Bevilacqua
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Piazza d’Italia Giorgio de Chirco
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Martyrdom of St Lawrence Jusepe de Ribera
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Study for St John the Baptist Andrea del Sarto
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Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso and Battista Dossi
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Alice armchair Jacopo Foggini
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Mystic marriage of St Catherine Lavinia Fontana
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Alpheus and Arethusa, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, double-spouted ewer  Fontana Workshop, Urbino
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Ore streams – Cabinet Formafantasma
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Ore streams – Desk Formafantasma
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Ore streams – Low chair Formafantasma
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Ore streams – Screen 1 Formafantasma
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Ore streams – Screen 2 Formafantasma
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Ore streams – Table Formafantasma
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Delphos Mariano Fortuny
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Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Baptist, Saint James of Compostela and Saint Nicholas of Bari Agnolo Gaddi
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Post Mundus chair Martino Gamper
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Beanbag (Sacco) Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro
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The Mocking of Christ Orazio Gentileschi
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Les Gray’s Assignment, Rome Elisa Scarton
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Archaistic kore; Head of kore Italy
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Diana and Acteon, dish  Italy, Tuscany
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Diana and Acteon, plate from the Sapies service  Italy, Casteldurante
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Filippo Neri Italy/Spain
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Head of Septimius Severus   Italy
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Head of Vespasian   Italy
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Luigi Boccherini Italy
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Tazza Italy, Venice
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Pelike (Apulian red-figure ware) Italy, Apulia
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Squat lekythos (Apulian Gnathian ware) Italy, Apulia
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Volute krater (Apulian red-figure ware) Italy, Apulia
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Pharmacy jar from Santa Maria Nuova Italy, Florence (manufacturer), Giunta di Tugio (workshop of)
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River landscape with Tiburtine Temple at Tivoli Claude Lorrain
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Battle of the sea gods: right half of a frieze   Andrea Mantegna
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Prime mover (Primo mobile)   Master of the E-series Tarocchi
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Caryatid Amedeo Modigliani
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Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert Amedeo Modigliani
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Antica pasticceria Milano, handbag Franco Moschino
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The Cumaean Sibyl delivering the Oracles Giovanni Paolo Panini
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Huntsman sounding his horn with a staghunt in the distance Parmigianino
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Diana Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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The well Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Who am I? Paola Pivi
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Battle of the nudes Antonio Pollaiuolo
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Alato, vase Gio Ponti
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The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas Poussin
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Dress and coat, spring–summer 2014 Prada, Milan
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Massacre of the Innocents   Marcantonio Raimondi  
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The three Marys at the sepulchre Franceso Romanelli
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The Holy Family of Francis I, St Elizabeth, Saint John and the infant Christ Giulio Romano
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Madonna and Child with three angels Cosimo di Lorenzo Rosselli
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Madonna in prayer Sassoferrato
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Head of a boy (recto); Compositional study for classically attired male and female figure (verso) Elisabetta Sirani
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Carlton room divider Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Milano Group
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The Banquet of Cleopatra Giambattista Tiepolo
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Doge Pietro Loredano Jacopo Tintoretto
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A monk with a book Titian
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Charity Alessandro Turchi
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St George slaying the dragon Paolo Uccello
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Candelabrum Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company, Venice
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Portrait of Venice: Majestic Murano A journey through the complex history of Venetian glass
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Handkerchief (Fazzoletto) vase Venini & Co., Murano
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Patchwork (Pezzato) vase Venini & Co., Murano
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Evening gown Versace
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Compact tablewares Lella and Massimo Vignelli

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