NGVextra – NGV International Director’s Tour

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NGVextra – NGV International Director’s Tour

  1. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Hans MEMLING: The Man of Sorrows in the arts of the Virgin

    Symbolic Passions This devotional image brings together various symbols of Christ’s crucifixion including the crown of thorns, nails and spear.

    3 min

  2. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    FLANDERS: Madonna and Child

    Whose Madonna is this? In 1923 the NGV paid a high price for this work, since then, the authenticity of the work has been questioned and still the debate rages.

    4 min

  3. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Giambattista TIEPOLO: The Finding of Moses

    An unsolved mystery Buying a painting by Sebastiano Ricci proved to be a good deal for the NGV when a tip off showed the work to be that of the master Tiepolo.

    4 min

  4. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Jusepe de RIBERA: Martyerdom of St Lawrence

    A Spanish master in Rome This very dramatic 17th century painting was once part of the high altar in a church in the Spanish district in Rome. A shift in taste saw it removed and now it hangs in Melbourne.

    3 min

  5. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Nathaniel DANCE: The Pybus Family

    Beneath the Varnish This portrait of an affluent family, with their bright coloured clothes, has a surprising Australian connection.

    3 min

  6. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    DOSSO DOSSI: Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara

    Scheming Murderess or Victim of Circumstance? This portrait was bought over fifty years ago and no one then knew who the sitter was. New technology and research has solved this puzzling mystery.

    4 min

  7. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Paris BORDONE: Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and Angels

    A fortutious case of mistaken identity This recent acquisition was attributed to the wrong artist for quite some time.

    4 min

  8. 07/07/2015 · VIDEO

    Prospero FONTANA: Holy Family with St Jerome, a female martyr and the infant St John the Baptist

    The Colours of Religion The complex composition of this active Italian work shocases the change of taste that occurred in the mid 16th century.

    3 min
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