artfirstprimo at the NG - the 16:00-17:00 early evening 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 room 61 of the Sainsbury wing with sculpture-like painting called The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (1505-6),by the professor of the antique, Andrea Mantegna (1430/1 - 1503): National Gallery web link here 

We then moved on to room 60, to look the painting that was not a painting, the fresco of Penelope with the Suitors (about 1509),by Pintoricchio (active 1481 - died 1513): National Gallery web link here

Crossing into the main building we then went to room 29 where we looked at one of the eight versions of The Judgement of Paris (probably 1632-5),by the wealthy and famous painter in his lifetime the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): National Gallery web link here

This was followed by visit to room 32 where we looked at The Supper at Emmaus (1601), by violent and controversial Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610): National Gallery web link here 

Finally we ended in room 44 with a modern masterpiece called Bathers at Asnières (1884), by Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891): 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).