National Gallery of Victoria facts for kids
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Started in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, at Southbank, with a branch gallery at Federation Square. The St Kilda Road Gallery, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, opened in 1968. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites – NGV International on St Kilda Road, redesigned by Mario Bellini, and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, designed by LAB Architecture Studio.
When the gallery opened, Victoria had been an independent colony for ten years. After the Victorian gold rush, it was easily the richest part of Australia, and Melbourne the largest city. Generous gifts from rich citizens, including the industrialist Alfred Felton, made it possible for the National Gallery to start buying large collections of overseas works from both old and modern masters. It has over 65,000 works of art.
The National Gallery of Victoria Art School began in 1867. It was the leading centre for art training in Australia until about 1910. The School’s graduates, such as Sidney Nolan, went on to become some of Australia’s most significant artists.
Images for kids
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Nicholas Chevalier's unrealised 1860 vision for the National Gallery next to the State Library building
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Opening of the McArthur Gallery in 1875, now home to the State Library of Victoria's painting collection
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The Great Hall ceiling, the world's largest stained-glass ceiling, designed by Melbourne artist Leonard French
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The Federation Square Atrium leads to the Ian Potter Centre, which houses NGV Australia.
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17th to 18th century European paintings gallery
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Max Dupain, Sunbaker, 1937
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William Blake, Dante running from the three beasts, 1824
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Aboriginal shields
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The Buffalo Ranges (1864) by Nicholas Chevalier, the first painting of an Australian subject to be acquired by the gallery
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Tom Roberts, Shearing the Rams, 1890
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Arthur Streeton, ‘The purple noon's transparent might’, 1896
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Jan van Eyck (workshop), Ince Hall Madonna, 1433
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Correggio, Madonna and Child with infant St John the Baptist, 1514–15
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Rembrandt, Two old men disputing, 1628
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Nicolas Poussin, The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1634
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Anthony van Dyck, Rachel de Ruvigny, Countess of Southampton, 1640
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743–44
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George Stubbs, A Lion Attacking a Horse, 1765
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J. M. W. Turner, The Red Rigi, 1842
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John Everett Millais, The Rescue, 1855
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August Friedrich Schenck, Anguish, 1878
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Jules Bastien-Lepage, October, 1878
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Claude Monet, Vétheuil, 1879
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Paul Cézanne, The Uphill Road, 1881
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Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather, 1897
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Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert, 1916
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See also
In Spanish: Galería Nacional de Victoria para niños
