FREE GUIDED TOUR: Italian Painters (Part II: Cinquecento) + Social

Gentle people,

It is my pleasure to invite you to Part II of Italian artists of the National Gallery, and an inebriated evening of socialisation at a nearby bar afterwards.

I will be giving a guided tour of the National Gallery to the members of LGBT Culture Lovers group, throughout this year in multiple parts. **There's no need to have attended previous sessions as I always recap**

In the second event of the series, we will be looking at the turn of the century and the early years of cinquecento (1500s). Included are Mantegna, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, & many others. I will recap trecento and quattrocento with new artists and paintings.

The tour will last around 60 minutes. And here is the agenda:

• 2pm: (optional) meet at the café inside the National Gallery (Bar Giorgio -- it's right across the Sainsbury Wing entrance) for coffee and croissant and friendly chat
• 2:45pm: Meet in the foyer of the National Gallery (Sainsbury Wing Entrance). We will wait for 15 minutes.
• 3pm: The tour starts right on the dot.
• 4pm-4:30pm: We will head to a bar nearby for socialising and drink the gift of Bacchus.

If you are running late, we will in rooms 51-61.

I also have included an optional reading list for those who might feel inspired by this series of talks and tours and wish to delve deeper into Italian art history and the artists I discuss in Part II.

I hope to see you all for any part of this event.

J x

Further Resources:
Artistic theory in Italy, 1450-1600, Anthony Blunt (Oxford Press: 1940)
"Renaissance in Italy", Britannica, Article
"The Renaissance", In Our Time, BBC Radio, Audio
"Da Vinci in the Sforza Court", The Italian Renaissance Podcast
"Raphael", The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Book Chapter
"Raphael", Vasari's Lives, Book Chapter
"Michelangelo", In Our Time, BBC Radio, Audio
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, ed Michael Wyatt (Cambridge University Press: 2014)