artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 21-12-12

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 of Western European art.

I hope that those of you, who were able to attend my free guided tour at the National Gallery today, Friday 21st 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 two works with the same title, the Agony in the Garden (about 1465) by Gentile Bellini (active about 1459 - died 1516): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-bellini-the-agony-in-the-garden and the Agony in the Garden (1458-60) by Andrea Mantegna (about 1430/1 - 1506): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/andrea-mantegna-the-agony-in-the-garden

This was followed by the work of the Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance painters in room 56, focusing on The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) by Jan van Eyck (active  1422 - died 1441): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait
But we also looked at briefly in the same room,  The Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?) (1433)  by Jan van Eyck (active  1422 - died 1441): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-portrait-of-a-man-self-portrait

We then moved on to room 14 to look at the Adoration of the Kings (1510-15) by Jan Gossaert (active 1502 - died 1532): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-gossaert-the-adoration-of-the-kings 

And finally we ended in room 34 with The Haywain (1821) by John Constable (1776 - 1837): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/john-constable-the-hay-wain

My next guided tours of the National Gallery will be in the new year on Saturday 19th January at the usual times of 11:30 and 14:30, I will also be giving the 10 Minute Talk at 16:00 in room 43 on the same day.  The subject will be At the Theatre (La Premiere Sortie) (1876-7) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pierre-auguste-renoir-at-the-theatre-la-premiere-sortie