artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 09-12-12

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 9th December, 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 with The Crucifixion (about 1490-95) by Master of the Aachen Altarpiece (active  late15th century to early 16th century): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/master-of-the-aachen-altarpiece-the-crucifixion

We also looked at in the same room,  The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Narrative Scenes (1260's) by Margarito of Arezzo (documented 1262): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/margarito-of-arezzo-the-virgin-and-child-enthroned-with-narrative-scenes

This was followed two works in room 9, Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-bacchus-and-ariadne and The Death of Actaeon, (1559 - 75): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-the-death-of-actaeon both by Titian (active about 1506 - died 1576): 

We finally we ended in room 29 with A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (1636) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/peter-paul-rubens-a-view-of-het-steen-in-the-early-morning

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Tuesday 11th December at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30.  I hope you can join me.