Welcome back art lovers. For those of you who don't yet know, let me remind you the National Gallery, London
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: altarpiece by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Virgin of the Rocks, (about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8) commissioned by the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory in San Francesco in 1480, followed by a new contract drawn up in 1483. We then looked at the three predella panels from the dismembered altarpiece, the Maestà by Duccio (active 1278; died 1319) The Healing of the Man born Blind, The Transfiguration and The Annunciation all dated (1307/8-11). We then moved to room 12 to look at Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) by Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (active about 1506; died 1576). This was followed by a look at number 4 panel from the Marriage A-la-Mode series, The Toilette (about 1743), by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764). We finally ended in room 34 with Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851).
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: altarpiece by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Virgin of the Rocks, (about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8) commissioned by the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory in San Francesco in 1480, followed by a new contract drawn up in 1483. We then looked at the three predella panels from the dismembered altarpiece, the Maestà by Duccio (active 1278; died 1319) The Healing of the Man born Blind, The Transfiguration and The Annunciation all dated (1307/8-11). We then moved to room 12 to look at Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) by Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (active about 1506; died 1576). This was followed by a look at number 4 panel from the Marriage A-la-Mode series, The Toilette (about 1743), by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764). We finally ended in room 34 with Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851).
My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Thursday 16th August at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30.
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