'Reading' Great Paintings 2
Event Details
Join the London Literary Salon at the National Gallery for our second ‘Reading Great Paintings’ study. We will view masterpieces by Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Titian, Monet, Akseli Gallen-Keitele and Rembrandt, and consider how we ‘read’ paintings.
Led by Sean Forester, a classically trained painter and literary discussion leader, the visit will be designed to encourage consideration of form and content in the artworks. How do the artists use drawing, colour, composition and brushwork? What do we feel when we look at a particular picture and why? What ideas are visually expressed?
The study will be based on shared observation and enquiry. We will spend approximately two and a half hours viewing paintings in the gallery (but please allow a little flexibility, we would like to allow our discussion to ‘breathe’). Our visit will be followed by an optional discussion over refreshments in a nearby cafe which you are warmly invited to join.
The paintings we will view range from the Renaissance to the twentieth century:
- Leonardo Da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks and The Burlington House Cartoon
- Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus
- Titian: Noli me Tangere and Bacchus and Ariadne
- Monet: Water-Lilies
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lake Keitele
- Rembrandt: Self Portrait, Margaretha de Geer, Jacob Trip
STUDY DETAILS:
- Single-session study, in-person, Thursday 14 September 2023, 12.00-2.30 pm in the gallery, followed by post-event discussion and a late light lunch at the Café in the Crypt, St Martin in the Fields (likely duration one hour).
- Facilitated by Sean Forester
- £75.00 for three-and-a-half-hour study (including notes and refreshments)
