Photography: It`s So Much Fun To Visit The National Gallery London

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - My wife and I are just back from London, where we stayed 6 weeks. A visit @ the National Gallery belongs to the highlights. It was so much fun to see all the amassed treasures (nationalgallery ). I can display just a tiny fraction of all these gems here, a very subjective selection as usual.

 

Above some wonderful details: "The Annunciation, with Saint Emitius" by Carlo Crivelli (from 1486) followed by "The Family of Darius before Alexander" by Paolo Veronese (1565-7); "the Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus)" by Diego Velázquez (1647-51) & "Susannah and the Elders" by Guido Reni (1620-5).

 

I was happy to spot 2 paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio there, my favorite of the classics. Above "Boy bitten by a Lizard" from about 1594-95. He seems to still live & suffer.

 

Above Caravaggio`s "The Supper of Emaus" from 1601. I am amazed how the master worked with light & shadows - pure magic.

 

Above  the amazing "Story of Griselda" from about 1494 by an artist (or group) called "The Master of the Story of Griselda".

 

 

Above "The Triumph of Chastity: Love Disarmed and Bound" from about 1509 by Luca Signorelli.

 

"The Laverne Family Breakfast" by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1754). Lovely!

 

Above 2 funny works by Lucas Cranach the Elder: "Cupid complaining to Venus"  (1526-7) & "Primitive People" (1527-30).

 

Above the powerful "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein the Younger from 1533

 

Above 2 paintings by Sandro Bottichelli: "Portrait of a Young Man" (1480-5) & "Venus and Mars" (detail 1485) .

 

Above Artemisia Gentileschi`s "Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" (from 1615-17) followed by Bronzino´s "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid" (1545 ) & Domenichino`s "Saint John the Evangelist" from the late 1620s.

 

Above 2 more masterpieces: "A Young Woman standing at a Virginal" by Johannes Vermeer, another magician of light (1670-2) & "Sun rising through Vapour: Fishermen cleaning and selling Fish", by Joseph Mallord William Turner (before 1807).

 If you happen to be in London you have to go there.


To be continued