artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 04-06-12

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. National Gallery's Permanent Collection consists of over 2,500 paintings.

I hope that those of you, who were able to attend my free guided tour at the National Gallery today, Monday 4th June, enjoyed the choice of paintings. 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 with: the lunette paintings by Fra Filippo Lippi (born about 1406; died 1469), The Annunciation and Seven Saints, about 1450-53), also the cassoni paintings by Francesco Pesellino (1422 - 1457), The Story of David and Goliath and The Triumph of David (about 1445-55) we then moved on to Sandro Botticelli (about 1445 - 1510) 'Mystic Nativity', 1500. In the same room we delved into Leonardo da Vinci’s, (1452 - 1519) The Virgin of the Rocks (about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8). Next on the tour was: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (1636). We finally ended with John Constable (1776 - 1837), The Cornfield (1826) 

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Sunday 24^th June at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30, and I will also be giving the Ten Minute talk on Canaletto’s, ‘The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day’ in room 38 at 16:00 also on Sunday 24^th June.