Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Shall We Remind Ourselves?

Joachim Wtewael
The Judgment of Paris
1615
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Paolo Veronese
The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great
ca. 1565-67
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Johannes Vermeer
Young Woman standing at a Virginal
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Anthony van Dyck
St Ambrose barring Theodosius
from Milan Cathedral

ca. 1619-20
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Titian
Noli me tangere
ca. 1511
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Bartholomeus Spranger
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1595
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Sebastiano del Piombo
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1525
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Roelant Savery
Orpheus playing to the Animals
1628
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Peter Paul Rubens
Abduction of the Sabine Women
ca. 1635-40
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Parmigianino
Portrait of a Collector
ca. 1523
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Bartolomé Murillo
Christ healing the Paralyzed Man at the Pool of Bethesda
ca. 1667-70
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Le Nain Brothers
Family at Table
ca. 1643
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Luca Giordano
Homage to Velázquez
ca. 1692-1700
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Corrado Giaquinto
Moses and the Serpent of Bronze
1743-44
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
Agony in the Garden
ca. 1520-30
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

"Shall we remind ourselves of the earlier history of this picture?" 

– Anthony Blunt, overheard addressing a group of nine-year-olds in the National Gallery (quoted from memory by Alan Bennett, in Keeping On Keeping On: Diaries, 2005-2015 – New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)