artfirstprimo at the NG - the 14:30-15:30 afternoon tour: 31-08-13

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. Also on weekends there is an additional tour at 16:00, and on the Friday night late opening there is a later tour at 19:00.  All tours leave 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 31st August 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 63, to look the unique and fragile painting on linen called The Entombment (probably 1450s), by the Northern Renaissance painter Dirk Bouts (1400?-1475): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we then went to room 9 where we saw The Origin of the Milky Way (about 1575), by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1519): National Gallery web link here

This was followed by visit to the nearby room 8 where we saw the rather controversial An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (about 1545),by Bronzino (1503 -1572): National Gallery web link here 

Finally we ended in room 4 with the rather magisterial full-length double portrait called The Ambassadors (1533), by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8 - 1543): National Gallery web link here


My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be:

Guided Tours - National Gallery - meet at: Sainsbury wing next to main shop - (Sun 15th Sept - 11:30 - 12:30 and 14:30 - 15:30 and 16:00 -17:00)

Guided Tours - National Gallery - meet at: Sainsbury wing next to main shop - (Wed 25th Sept - 11:30 - 12:30 and 14:30 - 15:30).