Welcome back art lovers. For those of you who don't yet know, let me remind you the National Gallery, London offers free lecture tours everyday at the same times of 11:30 and 14:30; leaving from the new part of the building - The Sainsbury Wing, just next to the main shop. Yesterday I, artfirstprimo, conducted both 60 minute tours of the NG, from 11:30-12:30 and from 14:30-15:30. Both the 11:30 and 14:30 tours of the National Gallery featured eleven different paintings from the National Gallery's Permanent Collection, which consists of over 2,500 paintings.
If you would like to come along to my next two tours of the National Gallery at 11:30 and 14:30 they will be on Friday 4th November, starting as usual just outside the main shop in the Sainsbury Wing. As usual I will only reveal the choice of pictures as we tour around the Gallery. However, I will also be giving the free 10 minute talk on the same day at 16:00 in room 8 in front of the painting, the featured artist, which I can reveal will be Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola called Il Parmigianino - 1503-1540 (The Madonna and Child with Saints John and Jerome, 1526-7).
I hope that those of you who were able to attend one of my talks at the National Gallery yesterday, enjoyed them, but if you missed them or just want a reminded of which pictures we looked at so you can visit them again with a friend. here is a list of those paintings:
The 11:30 NG tour pictures were: The Margarito of Arezzo (Virgin Child, 1260s), Carlo Crivelli - about 1430/5 - about 1494 (La Madonna della Rondine, about 1490-2), Jacopo Cumin called Tintoretto - 1518-1594 (Origin of the Milky Way, probably 1570-80), Tiziano Vecellio in English Titian - active about 1506 - died 1576 (Diana and Actaeon,1556-9), Titian (Death of Actaeon,1559-75), and to end the 11:30 tour, Claude-Oscar Monet - 1840-1926 (The Bathers at la Grenouillere,1869) and Claude-Oscar Monet (The Beach at Trouville, 1870).
For my 14:30 tour of the National Gallery I looked at the following pictures: Andrea Mantegna about - 1430/1-1506 (Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome,1505-6), Bernardino di Betto of Perugia called Pintoricchio - active 1481-1513 (Penelope with the Suitors, about 1509), Agnolo di Cosimo called Bronzino - 1503-1572 (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, probably 1540-50), and to end the 14:30 tour of the National Gallery, William Hogarth - 1697-1764 (Marriage-A-la-Mode, about 1743).
And for those of you who like quick bit-sized information about an artist and a particular work the, National Gallery's ten minute talks everyday at 16:00 will be ideal for you. Yesterday I also gave this talk, which took place in room 38 of National Gallery, and featured the artist Canaletto and his 1738 large canvas view of The Upper Reaches The Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo. The vantage point places the viewer directly in the centre of the Grand Canal. Canaletto's fame and fortune was mostly secured by English patronage, this resulted in him visiting England in 1747, which, for a painter that rarely left Venice, was indeed significant.
Hopefully see you all there for more fun at the National Gallery.
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