artfirstprimo at the NG - afternoon tour: 19-01-13

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, Saturday 19th January, 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 Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1475) by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo (about 1432 - 98, and about 1441 - before 1496): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/antonio-del-pollaiuolo-and-piero-del-pollaiuolo-the-martyrdom-of-saint-sebastian 

This was followed by The Madonna della Rondine (after 1490) by Carlo Crivelli (about 1430/5 - 1494): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/carlo-crivelli-la-madonna-della-rondine-the-madonna-of-the-swallow

We then moved to room 8 and looked at An Allegory Love (about 1545) by Bronzino (1503 - 1572): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/bronzino-an-allegory-with-venus-and-cupid

Following this we moved to room 4 to look at The Ambassadors (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8 - 1543): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-the-ambassadors

And finally we ended in room 44 with the Bathers at Asnieres (1884) by Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/georges-seurat-bathers-at-asnieres

My next guided tour will be at the National Portrait Gallery at 15:00 tomorrow 20th Jan.  The subject will be 'Women of Substance' http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/janaury-2013/gallery-talk-women-of-substance-20012013-evening.php