artfirstprimo at the NG - the 14:30 afternoon tour: 16-02-13

Welcome to my listing of paintings that have recently featured in my regular tours of the National Gallery, London. 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 16th February  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 four pictures in room 54; two lunette paintings considered to have the status of mere furniture, one of an Annunciation (about 1450-3):  http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/fra-filippo-lippi-the-annunciation and its pendant picture of the Seven Saints (about 1550-3) http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/fra-filippo-lippi-seven-saints both by Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-8 - 1469) 

Also in room 54 we looked at two other pictures, also considered to be furniture; The Story of David and Goliath (1444-55) and the Triumph of David (1444-55) by Francesco Pesellino (1422-1457): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/francesco-pesellino-the-story-of-david-and-goliath

This was followed by The Entombment (about 1470) by Dirk Bouts (1400-1475?): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/dirk-bouts-the-entombment

We then moved to room 8 and looked at The Raising of Lazarus (1517-19) by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485 – 1547): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sebastiano-del-piombo-the-raising-of-lazarus

Following this we moved to room 6 and looked at An Allegory of Love (1527-39) by Garofalo (1481 - 1559): http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/garofalo-an-allegory-of-love

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


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be at 11:30 and 14:30 on Sunday 24th Feb. Hope to see you there:  http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/adult-learning/