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

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 two lunette painting of the Annunciation (about 1450-53): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/fra-filippo-lippi-the-annunciation and Seven Saints (about 1450-53): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/fra-filippo-lippi-seven-saints both by Fra Fillippo Lippi (born about 1406 - died 1469): 

We then looked The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (1505 - 1506)  by Andrea Mantegna (about-1430/1-1506): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/andrea-mantegna-the-introduction-of-the-cult-of-cybele-at-rome

This was followed the work in chapel-like room 66, The Raising of Lazarus (about 1517 - 1519) by Sebastiano del Piombo (about 1485-1547): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sebastiano-del-piombo-the-raising-of-lazarus 

We then went to room 6 where we looked at An Allegory of Love (probably about 1527 - 39) by Garofalo (about 1482 - 1559):http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/garofalo-an-allegory-of-love . 

And finally we ended in room 46 with After the Bath - Woman Drying Herself (about 1890-5) by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834 -1917): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hilaire-germain-edgar-degas-after-the-bath-woman-drying-herself

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be on Friday 21st December at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30, but as it is a late night at the Gallery, there is also a late tour at 19:00.  I hope you can join me.