Renoir’s Femme au corsage rouge, believed to portray Gabrielle Renard, reveals the artist’s late style through intimate composition, warm colour, fluid brushwork and a striking red corsage.
Ciriaca’s Mosaics
Two remarkable Late Antique mosaics reveal the story of Maria Simplicia Rustica and her husband, offering a moving glimpse into love, loss and remembrance in ancient Rome.
George Lambert’s Self Portrait with Gladioli
A velvet jacket, a pipe, and a vase of gladioli, meet George Lambert, the Russian-born jackeroo who became Australia’s most glittering artist.
Virgilio Costantini’s On the Cliff
In 1936, at the height of his career, Italian painter Virgilio Costantini captured his wife on a clifftop in a gouache of rare scale, confidence, and tenderness.
Raphael’s La Fornarina
Who is the beautiful woman who modestly tries to cover herself? Raphael left clues but no answers. Five centuries on, La Fornarina remains art history’s most captivating unsolved mystery.
Marble Portrait of Constantine the Great
A Face Between Two Empires: Constantine in Marble presents the marble portrait of Constantine the Great as a turning point in Roman art, where classical imperial imagery, political messaging, and the rise of Christianity converge in carved stone.
The Portrait of the Wyndham Sisters by John Singer Sargent
Sargent’s Portrait of the Wyndham Sisters transforms portraiture into a dynamic composition, uniting elegance, movement, and individuality while capturing psychological nuance and the interplay between heritage, identity, and modern femininity.
Fayum Mummy Portraits
Fayum mummy portraits fuse Roman realism with Egyptian funerary tradition, preserving vivid identities through encaustic painting, rich symbolism, and multicultural influences, offering an intimate, enduring connection to individuals of ancient Roman Egypt.
IVLIA BELLA
The IVLIA BELLA plate from Faenza exemplifies early Renaissance maiolica, celebrating idealized feminine beauty through refined portraiture, elegant inscription, and humanist aesthetics that reflect the period’s growing fascination with individuality, love, and artistic refinement.
Andrea della Robbia’s tender Portrait of a Child
Andrea della Robbia’s glazed terracotta Portrait of a Child embodies Renaissance ideals of innocence and care, using luminous color and tender naturalism to celebrate childhood and reflect enduring values of compassion and human dignity.