artfirstprimo at the NG - morning 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 Arnolfini Portrait (1434) by Jan van Eyck (active  1422 - died 1441): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait

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

This was followed the work in chapel-like room 66, The Baptism of Christ (1450s) by Piero della Francesca (about 1415/20 - 1492): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/piero-della-francesca-the-baptism-of-christ 

We then went to room 24 where we looked at the Self-Portrait at the Age of 34 (1640) by Rembrandt (1606 - 1669): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rembrandt-self-portrait-at-the-age-of-34 . 

We also briefly looked at, in room 24, the Dutch Caravaggists paintings, Christ Before the High Priest (about 1617) by Gerrit van Honthorst (1592 - 1656): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/gerrit-van-honthorst-christ-before-the-high-priest and The Concert (about 1626) by Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588 - 1629): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hendrick-ter-brugghen-the-concert

We then moved on to room 31 to look at the Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (about 1637-38) by Anthony van Dyck (1599 -1641): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/anthony-van-dyck-equestrian-portrait-of-charles-i 

And finally we ended in room 32 with The Supper at Emmaus (1601) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-the-supper-at-emmaus

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 Gallery there will also be a late tour at 19:00, I hope you can join me.