Saturday 7 July 2012

artfirstprimo at the NG - morning tour: 07-07-12

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, Saturday 7th July, 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 Paolo Uccello (about 1397 - 1475), The Battle of San Romano, probably about 1438-40, we then looked at La Madonna della Rondine (The Madonna of the Swallow) (after 1490) by Carlo Crivelli (about 1430/5 - about 1494). This was followed by a look at An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'), (about 1513), by Quinten Massys (1465 - 1530). In room 34 we explored the landscape of The Hay Wain (1821) by John Constable (1776 - 1837). We finally ended with The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833), by Paul Delaroche (1797 - 1856) 

My next free guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Sunday 29th July at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30, I will also be giving (on Sunday 29th July) a Ten Minute talk in room 45 at 16:00 on The Sunflowers (1888), by Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).

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