artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 01-11-12

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, Thursday 1st November, 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 in the Sainsbury wing looking at workshop tradition of painting in Florence of the 1470s with The Marytrdom of Saint Sebastian (1475) by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo(about 1432-1498 and about 1441-1496). While here we briefly mentioned Tobias and the Angel (about 1470-75) Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (about 1435-1488) Madonna of the Rocks (1491/2-9 and 1506-8) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and The Virgin and Child with Saint John (probably about 1490-1500) David Ghirlandiao (1452-1525).  We then moved on to room 58 to look at Venus and Mars (about 1485) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). This was followed The Origin of the Milky Way (about 1575) by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594). We then moved on to the room 30 to look at the The Toilet of Venus ('Rokeby Venus') (1647-51) by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660).  We finally we ended in room 44 with The Bathers at Asnieres (1884) by Georges Seurat (1859-1891).

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Saturday 24th November at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30.  Aslo on Saturday 24th November I will be giving the ten minute talk at 16:00 in room 46, on the painting After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (1890-95) by Hilare-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834-1917).