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, Sunday 15th September 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 afternoon tour in room 59 looking at La Madonna della Rondine (The Madonna of the Swallow) (after 1490), by Carlo Crivelli (about 1430/5 - about 1494)
We then moved on to room 62, of the Sainsbury wing, to look The Agony in the Garden (about 1465), by Giovanni Bellini (about 1459 - died 1516): While here we also looked at The Agony in the Garden (1458-60) Andrea Mantegna (1430/1 - 1506)
Crossing into the main building we then went to room 12 where we saw Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) by Titian (active about 1506; died 1576)
This was followed by visit to room 35 where we saw one of a series of six paintings all called Marriage-A-la-Mode, the one we looked at was Marriage-A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette (1743), all paintings by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Finally we ended in room 34 with The Hay Wain (1821), by John Constable (1876 - 1837)
My next guided tours at the National Gallery will be:
Guided Tours - National Gallery - meet at: Sainsbury wing next to main shop - (Wed 25th Sept - 11:30 - 12:30 and 14:30 - 15:30).
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