artfirstprimo tours of the National Gallery

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.  Today on 5th February I 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.

I hope that those of you, who were able to attend one of my talks at the National Gallery today, 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:

We began the 11:30 morning tour with: Bernardino di Betto of Perugia called Pintoricchio (active 1481; died 1513).  Next on the tour was: the Master of the Aachen Altarpiece (active late 15th to early 16th century) The Crucifixion (about 1490-5).  This was followed by Agnolo Bronzino (1503 - 1572) An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (about 1545). We finally ended the Morning tour with: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797), An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768).

And if you missed my 14:30 tour of the same day or just need a reminder of the paintings we looked at to see them again with a friend, here's a reminder list: We began with: Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (about 1435 - 1488) Tobias and the Angel, (about 1470-5).  Next on the 14:30 tour was: Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called 'Botticelli' (about 1445 - 1510) Venus and Mars, (about 1485).  The 14:30 tour then looked at the Baroque master: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Peace & War, (1629-1630).  This was then followed by the Northern Renaissance master Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532) The Adoration of the Kings, (1510-15), and the last picture on my 14:30 tour was: Claude-Oscar Monet (1840 - 1926) The Beach at Trouville, (1870). 

My next free tours of the National Gallery will be: Saturday 10^th March 2012 and Monday 12^th March 2012. The tours will be at 11:30-12:30 and from 14:30-15:30. See you there.