Great explorers
EXPERIMENTAL gentlemen was apparently what the ordinary seamen called the scientists and intellectuals who accompanied James Cook’s great voyages.
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PHILOSOPHY began with the hypothesis that the world was made of water. When students encounter this idea, they tend to think it odd, if not naive.
Correggio purchase masterstroke for NGV
IT is a great achievement for the National Gallery of Victoria to have acquired a significant work by such an important artist of the Renaissance.
Intern nation
THE Enemy at Home is a moving reflection on the energy and ingenuity of the human spirit under very difficult conditions.
Primitive brotherhood of masters
WHEN Giorgio Vasari published his artists’ biographies in the mid-16th century, he distinguished the Renaissance into three phases or “manners”.
Edmund Capon’s success story
EDMUND Capon will be a hard act to follow.
Fox studios
EMANUEL Phillips and Ethel Carrick Fox are surveyed properly for the first time in a fine exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Charmer of the Sydney school
MARGARET Olley’s influence as an artist, model and benefactor will endure.
Generous spirit who celebrated life
MARGARET Olley was almost certainly the best-loved figure in the art world of Sydney, if not of Australia.
Freud earned greatness through tenacity
LUCIAN Freud, who has died at 88, was one of those rare artists who periodically remind us that greatness is achieved only through single-minded, even stubborn, integrity.
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