The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is one of the nation’s major galleries, possessing over 65,000 artworks that span thousands of years. A good deal of the work represented in the gallery falls within CHE's historical purview (1100–1800). The NGV has partnered with CHE to produce a major exhibition of artworks from this period to explore how individual and communal emotions were depicted and how these impacted on contemporary audiences. We have been undertaking small projects that include the NGV since CHE began. In 2014, Charles Zika and Stephanie Trigg (both CIs based at the Melbourne Node) contributed to a series of talks reflecting on the gallery’s major international exhibition: ‘Italian Masterpieces from Spain’s Royal Court, Museo del Prado’. In 2017 the NGV partnered with CHE to produce a major exhibition of artworks from the study period to explore how individual and communal emotions were depicted and how these impact on contemporary audiences. The exhibition Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800 ran from Friday 31 March to Sunday 18 June 2017.
Image: Master of the Stories of Helen, Antonio Vivarini (studio of), The Garden of Love (c.1465-1470), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1948, 1827-4.
