artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 24-06-12

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, Sunday 24th 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: a painting, by Dirk Bouts (1400? - 1475), The Entombment, probably 1450s, we then looked at The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (1505-6) by Andrea Mantegna (about 1430/1 - 1506). This was followed by a look at Dutch painting with a River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants, (about 1658-60), by Aelbert Cuyp (1620 - 1691). In room 12 we explored a painting called Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (active about 1506; died 1576). We finally ended with Bathers at Asnières (1884), by Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) 

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Saturday 7^th July at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30, and if you missed my talk on The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') (1647-51), by Diego Velázquez (1599 - 1660) I will be giving it again as a Ten Minute talk in room 30 at 16:00 also on Saturday 7^th July.