artfirstprimo at the NG - morning 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 the portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501-2) by Gentile Bellini (active about 1459 - died 1516): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-bellini-doge-leonardo-loredan

This was followed by The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Narative Scenes (1260s) by Margarito of Arezzo (documented 1262): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/margarito-of-arezzo-the-virgin-and-child-enthroned-with-narrative-scenes

We then moved to room 11 and looked at four paintings called The Four Elements (1569) by Joachim Beuckelaer (active  1560 - died 1574): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joachim-beuckelaer-the-four-elements-earth

Following this we moved the room 4 to look at the portrait of Erasmus (1523) by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8 - 1543): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-erasmus

After this it was time to come into the modern age in room 43 with Bathers at La Grenouillere (1869) by Claude-Oscar Monet (1840 - 1926): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-oscar-monet-bathers-at-la-grenouillere

And finally we ended in room 44 with Lake Keitele (1905) by Akseli Galen-Kallela (1865 - 1931): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/akseli-gallen-kallela-lake-keitele

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