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.