artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 05-08-12

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 5th August, 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: triptych altarpiece by Master of the Aachen Altarpiece (active late 15th to early 16th century), The Crucifixion, (about 1490-5). We then looked at Penelope with the Suitors (about 1509) by Bernardino di Betto of Perugia, called Pintoricchio  (active 1481; died 1513). Moving to room 8 we looked at to look at The Raising of Lazarus (about 1517-19) by Sebastiano del Piombo (about 1485 - 1547). This was followed An Allegory of Love (probably about 1527-39), by Garofalo (about 1481 - 1559). We finally ended in room 45 with The Sunflowers (1888), by Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Thursday 16^th August at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30.