Matthew Martin

Porcelain and Power: The Meaning of Sèvres Porcelain in ancien regime France

Matthew Martin

Book Chapter  |  2020

The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a cent..

Porcelain and Sculptural Aesthetics: The Evidence of the Zwettl Table Centrepiece

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2020  |  The French Porcelain Society Journal

On 17 April 1768 a grand celebration was held at the abbey of Zwettl in Lower Austria to celebrate the fiieth jubilee of Abbot Ra..

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..

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..

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 ..

Fragile Identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain

M Martin

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

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..

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

M Martin

Book Chapter  |  2017

Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800

A Hesson, C Zika

Book  |  2017

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

Matthew Martin

Journal article  |  2016  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century English painted cabinet. It belongs to a small gr..