artfirstprimo at the NG - the 14:30 afternoon tour: 22-05-13

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 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, Sunday 5th May 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 very small, chapel-like room 66 of the Sainsbury wing with the Baptism of Christ (1450s) by Piero della Francesca (about 1415/20 - 1492): National Gallery web link here 

We then moved on to room 64, of the Sainsbury wing, to look triptych (three panel painting), with the two panels on loan from the Walker Art Gallery of Liverpool of  Passion of Christ (about 1490-95) by the unknown artist known only as The Master of the Aachen Altarpiece (active late 15th to early 16th century): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we then went to room 14 where we saw an Adoration of the Kings (1510 - 1515) by Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532): National Gallery web link here

This was followed by visit to room 32 for a recently restored Adoration of the Shepherds (about 1640) in  by Guido Reni (1575 - 1642): National Gallery web link here 

Finally we ended in room 44 with the modern masterpiece Bathers at Asnières (1884) by Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891): National Gallery web link here


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be announced shortly.
  

artfirstprimo at the NG - the 11:30 morning tour: 22-05-13

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 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, Sunday 5th May 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 room 62 of the Sainsbury wing with the Doge Loredan (1501-2) by Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459 - died 1516): National Gallery web link here 

We then moved on to room 60, of the Sainsbury wing, to look at the brother-in-law of the previous painter with a work called The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (1505-6) by Andrea Mantegna (about 1430/31 died 1506): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we went to room 9 and alighted on The Death of Actaeon (1559 - 1575) by Tiziano Vecellio in English Titian (active about 1506 - died 1576): National Gallery web link here

This was followed by an Adoration of the Kings (1564) in room 14 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (active 1550/1; died 1569): National Gallery web link here 

Finally we ended in room 32 with The Supper at Emmaus (1601) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610): National Gallery web link here


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be announced shortly.
  

artfirstprimo at the NG - the 11:30 morning tour: 05-05-13

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 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, Sunday 5th May 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 room 54 of the Sainsbury wing with the Battle of San Romano (probably about 1438-40) by Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475): National Gallery web link here 

We then moved on to room 56, one of the smallest rooms in the Sainsbury wing, to look at the enigmatic Arnolfini Portrait (1434) by Jan van Eyck (active 1422 died 1441): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we went to room 9 and looked at the High Renaissance Venetian school of painting represented by one of four ceiling paintings called Happy Union (about 1475) by Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588): National Gallery web link here

While in room 9 we also looked two other examples of Veronese's work; The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565-7): National Gallery web link here and The Dream of St Helena (1617): National Gallery web link here (about 1570)


This was followed by a visit to room 5 to look at the triptych, Scenes from the Passion of Christ (about 1510) by the mysterious Master of Delft (active early 15th century): National Gallery web link here

Finally we ended in room 44 and looking at the painting that sits just outside of the National Gallery's official time remit, Lake Keitele (1905) by the only Finish artist in the National Gallery's collection, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931): National Gallery web link here


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be at 11:30 and 14:30 (Wednesday May 22nd).
  

artfirstprimo at the NG - the 14:30 afternoon tour: 05-05-13

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 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, Sunday 5th May 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 room 57 of the Sainsbury wing with the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1475) by Antonio and Piero del Polliauolo (about 1432-98 and about 1441 - before 1496): National Gallery web link here 

While here we also looked two other examples of workshop paintings; Tobias and the Angel, with the intervention of Leonardo da Vinci's dog (about 1470-75) by workshop of Verrocchio: National Gallery web link here and The Virgin of the Rocks (1491/2-9 and 1506-8) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519): National Gallery web link here

We then moved into the main building to room 9 to look at the Death of Actaeon (1559 -75) by Titian (active about 1506 died 1576): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we went to room 9 and looked at the High Renaissance Venetian school of painting represented by one of four ceiling paintings called Happy Union (about 1475) by Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588): National Gallery web link here

Finally we ended in room 43 and looking at the Bathers at La Grenouillère (1869) by Claude-Oscar Monet (1865 - 1931): National Gallery web link here


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be at 11:30 and 14:30 (Wednesday May 22nd).