Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great at the National Gallery of Victoria International until the 8th November 2015. We enter the exhibition face-to-face with Catherine the Great in a portrait by […]
Dr Donato Esposito will present a lecture on Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), the first and most famous President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, focussing upon his activities as a collector of art. Dr […]
A panel of prominent artists, collectors, curators and specialists will consider the motivations, passions and idiosyncrasies of contemporary art collectors and those driven to give. Potter director Kelly Gellatly will chair the conversation. The panel […]
The program for art history seminars at the University of Melbourne for semester 2 is below. All seminars are held in The Linkway, John Medley Building, 4th floor (running between the East and West Towers), […]
This lecture will examine a group of significant art collections formed in London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Australian millionaires.
European Visual Culture Seminar Catholic Collecting and Patronage in Eighteenth-century England: The Lords Clifford of Chudleigh Matthew Martin The years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 have been seen as a period of decline into […]
The Archbishop’s Piranesis: an unlikely collection for nineteenth-century Melbourne? Dr Colin Holden The lecture focuses on the greatest single collection of art among the Baillieu Library’s Rare Books, which is a complete set of the […]
Collecting Correggio Dr Gerard Vaughan Join NGV Director Dr Gerard Vaughan to hear the stories behind the NGV’s recent acquisition, Renaissance masterpiece Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist by Correggio. Date: Thursday 8th December, 2011, […]
Sex, Lies and Theft in the Late Eighteenth-Century: the Underbelly of the Taste for the Antique Dr Gerard Vaughan AM, Director, National Gallery of Victoria The possession of antiquities of quality defined the taste of […]
Call for Papers Early Modern Merchants as Collectors Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June 15-16, 2012 Deadline: May 31, 2011 Context In 1615, Vincenzo Scamozzi highlighted the importance in Venice of the merchant-collectors Bartolomeo dalla Nave and Daniel Nijs by including descriptions of […]
