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.