artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 26-08-12

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 26th 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: The Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs (probably 1500-15) by Piero di Cosimo (1462 - 1522). We briefly mentioned wedding chest or Cassoni in the same room, with an image of The Story of the Schoolmaster of Falerii (late 15th century), attributed to the Master of Marradi (active in Tuscany in the late 15th century).  We then looked at Portrait of a Man (about 1475-6) by Antonello da Messina (active 1456; died 1479); briefly mentioning: Portrait of a Man (1497), by Alvise Vivarini (living 1457; died 1503/5) and Portrait of an Elderly Man (1487) by Francesco Bonsignori (1455/60? - 1519?), all in the same room. We then on moved to room 31 in to look at Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (about 1637-8) by Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641).  After this, it was through to room 36 to look at Mrs Oswald (about 1763-4) by Johann Zoffany (1733? - 1810), and we finally ended in room 44 with The Umbrellas (about 1881-6) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919).

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Sunday 23^rd September at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30.