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Dr

Matthew Martin

Lecturer - Art History And Curatorship
Culture And Communication
Eighteenth century
art
art history
eighteenth century
early modern
history of emotions
english catholicism
history of collecting
country house poems
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Dr

Matthew Martin

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Art History
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Dr

Matthew Martin

 

From June 2006 to January 2019 I was a curator in the department of International Decorative Arts in the National Gallery of Victoria.
My research interests include:Eighteenth-century European Decorative artsThe cultural aesthetics of eighteenth-century European porcelain and the medium's connections to the European alchemical traditionThe early modern domestic interiorChinoiserie and JaponismeCollecting and patronage amongst seventeenth and eighteenth-century recusant elitesJacobite material culture

Scholarly Works

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Making Sense of Nonsense: Pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance Maiolica Dish

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

This article explore the cultural background and possible signification of rare examples of pseudo-oriental inscriptions on a lat..

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Infinite Bodies: The Baroque, the Counter-Reformation Relic, and the Body of James II

M Martin

Book Chapter  |  2018

This volume illuminates how, rather than providing rationally ordered visual realms, both the baroque and the neo-baroque construc..

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Eighteenth-century Neo-Classicism

Matthew Martin

Book Chapter  |  2018

This essay explores the rise of an archaeological neo-classicism in the latter half of the eighteenth century and its impact upon ..

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Fragile Identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain

M Martin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Rituals of love

M Martin

Book Chapter  |  2017

Featuring texts by leading scholars and curators, this lavishly illustrated book considers the capacity of art and objects to mate..

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Joseph Reeve , SJ, the Park at Ugbrooke and the Clifffords of Chudleigh

M Martin

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800

A Hesson, C Zika

Book  |  2017

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A Cabinet of Curiosity: an early English japanned cabinet in the collections of the NGV

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2015  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Displaying Renaissance Art in Melbourne

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2015  |  Exhibiting the Renaissance, ed. By Angela Dressen and Susanne Gramatzki, in: kunsttexte.de, Nr3

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The Chelsea Pietà

Matthew Martin

Book  |  2013

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Joseph Willems’ Chelsea Pietà and Eighteenth-Century Sculptural Aesthetics

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2013  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Style and Classification in the History of Art

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2011

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‘Relics of Another Age: Art History, the “Decorative Arts” and the Museum’, ABV49: The Annual Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2010, 7-21.

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2010

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Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt

Matthew Martin

Book  |  2006

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Origen’s Theory of Language and the First Two Columns of the Hexapla

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2005

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Athanasiana Syriaca and the Library of Dayr al-Suryan

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2003  |  Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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Review of J Murphy-O’Connor, St Paul’s Corinth: Texts and Archaelogy (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2002).

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2003  |  PACIFICA

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Review of D. Runia & G. E. Sterling (eds) 1999 The Studia Philonica Annual XI. Brown Judaic Studies 323. Atlanta Georgia, and Manuel Alexandre Jr 1999 Rhetorical Argumentation in Philo of Alexandria. Brown Judiac Studies 322 (Studia Philonica Monographs 2) Atlanta Georgia.

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2002  |  Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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Interpreting the Theodotos Inscription: Some Reflections on a first century Jerusalem Synagogue Inscription and E.P. Sanders’ "Common Judaism’

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2002  |  Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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Review of R. Ebied, A. van Roey, L.R Wickhwm, 1998 Petrus Callinicensis Patriarchae Antiocheni. Tractatus contra Damianum, vol III, libri tertii capita XX-XXIV (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 35) Leuven

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2002  |  Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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A Syriac Inscription From Deir Al-Surian

MJ MARTIN

Journal article  |  2002  |  Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

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Keyword Analysis

Communication
Religion and Ethics
Religion and Religious Traditions
Art Theory and Criticism
Literature Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Historical Studies
Language Studies
Other History and Archaeology

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Feeling blue? Get acquainted with the history of a colour

Matthew Martin

November 12, 2015

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Credentials

Positions

Lecturer - Art History And Curatorship

Culture And Communication

Member

ANZMEMS

Member

AAANZ

Education

Master of Arts

Melbourne College of Divinity

Postgraduate certificate in Art Conservation Studies

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

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