Bastille Day at the NGV
Bastille Day at the NGV FRANCE The storming of the Bastille prison and the arrest of its governor, Bernard-René de Launay, 14 July 1789 (Prise de la Bastille et arrestation du gouverneur M. de Launay,...
View ArticlePhilosophy Short Course | Perspectives on Napoleon
Philosophy Course: Perspectives on Napoleon NGV International September 9, 16, 23 & 30 Jean-Baptiste ISABEY (after) Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, in the gardens of Malmaison 1804 coloured...
View ArticleNapoleon Colloquium at NGV International
Napoleon Colloquium Saturday 22nd September Jacques Louis-David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. An afternoon forum exploring the art, artists and their world in the time of Napoleon with three lectures on...
View ArticleExhibition Review | Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists. Reviewed by David R....
Radiance. The Neo-Impressionists Reviewed by David R. Marshall Georges Seurat, 'The Seine at Courbevoie', 1885 (La Seine à Courbevoie). Oil on canvas, 81.4 x 65.2 cm. Private collection, Paris...
View ArticleExhibition Review | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death and Disaster....
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death and Disaster Reviewed by Katrina Grant Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from The Apocalypse, published 1498, woodcut. National Gallery of...
View ArticleExhibition Review | Monet’s Garden at the National Gallery of Victoria....
Monet’s Garden David R. Marshall Unknown, 'Claude Monet outside his house at Giverny', 1921, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Monet’s Garden until 8th September 2013, National Gallery of Victoria International....
View ArticleMelbourne Winter Masterclasses by Melbourne Uni and NGV | Making Sense of Monet
Making Sense of Monet Monet, Rouen Cathedral The University of Melbourne in partnership with the NGV International The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne is delighted to present...
View ArticleShort Course | The Age of Impressionism – France & Australia | Monet’s Garden
Presented by art and cultural historians this series of lectures will delve into the social and cultural world of the Impressionist era in Paris and will address how the Australian artists connected...
View ArticleSeminar | Visual Manipulation and Auto/Biography | Sydney Intellectual...
Visual Manipulation and Auto/Biography Madame, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans, in Hunting Dress by Louis-Ferdinand Elle, 1673 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin The first...
View ArticleCall for Papers | 33rd Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French...
33rd Annual Conference SE-17 – Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century Studies October 16-18, 2014 University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Conference Organizer Jean Leclerc,...
View ArticleLecture | Matisse and the Near East – Petra Chu | NGV International
In the course of his long career, the French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) repeatedly looked at non-Western art for inspiration. Japanese prints, Persian and Indian miniatures, Byzantine icons and...
View ArticleExhibition | Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier, Atget | Monash...
Henri de Toulous-Lautrec,Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, Pan, vol. 1, no. 3, October 1895 1895 planographic , brush and crayon lithograph, printed in eight colours on paper, National Gallery of...
View ArticleWAYLA | Marie-Anne Collot’s Bust of Diderot | Katrina Grant
This weekend is the final weekend of the NGV’s Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great. There are talks, drawing and music events over the weekend (see more here I gave a...
View ArticleNews | NGV announces ‘Degas’ as the 2016 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces...
Edgar Degas, Family portrait also called The Bellelli family 1858–69, oil on canvas, 201 x 249.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Lemoisne 79 (RF 2210), © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice...
View ArticleNGV Appeal to buy François Marie Poncet’s 1782 Vénus
François Marie Poncet Vénus, Rome, 1782, white marble with grey veins, on a marble plinth with roses and acanthus leaves, Vénus: height 120 cm; plinth: height 100.5 x 45.0 x 45.5 cm The NGV is asking...
View ArticleNew Book | Representations of Renaissance monarchy Francis I and the...
New book Representations of Renaissance monarchy Francis I and the image-makers by Lisa Mansfield from the University of Adelaide. About the book Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the...
View ArticleNGV acquires Degas sculpture
Edgar Degas, ‘Dancer looking at the sole of her right foot (Second study)’ c. 1900–10, cast 1919–37 or later bronze 47.3 x 24.3 x 20.8 cm, Czestochowski/Pingeot 59 (cast T) National Gallery of...
View ArticleMelbourne Masterclass: Van Gogh’s Four Seasons
Farmhouse in Provence June 1888 Arles, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington Monday, 1 & 8 May and Wednesday, 17 & 24 May 2017, 6.00pm–8.30pm In partnership with the National...
View ArticleMelbourne Masterclass –‘Paris is the World’
Image: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, Le Pont Neuf, la Samaritaine et la pointe de la Cité, second half of 18th-century. Melbourne Masterclass: “Paris is the World”- The history of Old Regime and...
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