On the cover this month
Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938)
Portrait of the Doge Loredano between 1900 and 1909
shellac on oil on cardboard; 48.5 x 36.0 cm
Pictorial Collection
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after Giovanni Bellini (d.1516) Florentine
The Doge Leonardo Loredan 1501-1504
oil on poplar; 61.6 x 45.1 em
Original in the National Gallery, London
This
reproduction oil portrait of Bellini’s Doge features in the National
Library of Australia’s current exhibition, The Great Masters, by
Mortimer Menpes. (See story, page 3.) British-based, Australian-born
Menpes presented this work and 37 other oil-paint copies of the 'Great
Masters' of European art to the Commonwealth in 1911. The present
exhibition is only the second occasion the paintings have been formally
exhibited in Australia. Menpes was a protege of James McNeill Whistler,
and a major figure in the printmaking revival that swept British art in
the late nineteenth century. He was also widely credited with leading
the revival of colour etching, and widening appreciation ofJapanese
artistic traditions in Britain around that time.
August 2002 Volume XII Number 11
THE GREAT MASTERS, BY MORTIMER MENPES
Tim Fisher introduces the Library’s current exhibition
MAN WITH DREAMS FOR SALE, AND A LOT OF SANGFROID: ACTOR-MANAGER FRANK GERALD
Judy Cannon looks at the eventful life and times of a showman
LIBRARIES AND EROTICA
Edgar Crook considers a perhaps less-known component of the Library’s Collection
'LIKE A HIPPO AND SOMETHING ELSE': AN ALL-AUSTRALIAN BUNYIP PANTOMIME
Richard Stone describes the career of an original piece of Australian theatre
THE ROLLS SERIES
Sylvia Marchant examines an epic work on the Library’s shelves
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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