artfirstprimo at the NG - morning 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 we looked at The Annunciation with Saint Emidius (1486) by Carlo Crivelli (about 1430/6 - about 1494). We then looked at the painting on linen,  The Entombment (probably 1450s) by Dirk Bouts (1400? - 1475). This was followed The Judgement of Paris (1632/5) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). We then moved on to the room 32 to look at two pictures, Lot and His Daugthers Leaving Sodom (1615-16) by Guido Reni (1575-1642) and The Supper at Emmaus (1601) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).  We finally we ended in room 40 with Bacchus and Ariadne (probably 1700-1710) by Sebastiano Ricci (1659 - 1734).

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).