#15 - The National Gallery of Art

This week we head back to the mall, for a visit to a great art gallery, the West Building of the National Gallery of Art

To help make our podcast a little more educational, we have put together a page which contains links to the National Gallery's photographs of all the art we talk about. The link is here: Works discussed in the Podcast

We start by briefly enjoying the fountain in the Sculpture Garden. (3:51)

Once inside the museum, Julie recaps a bit of the history of the Museum, though there is a more complete history of the museum in Podcast #4. (6:51)

We visit the museum in chronological order, starting with the Italian Renaissance. (9:23)

We visit galleries devoted to German, Netherlandish, and Dutch painters, which include a lot of Rembrandt portraits. (13:55)

We head back into the sculpture hall, and talk about the sculpture halls, before visiting American Painter Thomas Cole's voyage of Life series, a favorite of Julie's. We continue on through the American galleries, including Copley, Homer, Singer, Sergeant and Whistler. (20:12)

We visit the Impressionist galleries, both American and French. (31:45)

We head to the elevator, and take it to the concourse, to visit our favorite painting in the whole museum - Salvador Dali's Last Supper. (36:20)

We play Entranced, by Anne Arundel County artist Blake Emrys. We don't have a web site for Blake, but his music is available at podsafeaudio.com. His music seemed to go well with a surrealist painting. (39:42)

After a walk through the gift shop, we visit the sculpture and decorative arts galleries. (42:50)

Finally we find the Vermeer paintings and one last Rembrandt. (47:12)

Our Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans. Logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.

Our National Gallery of Art photo album..

Don't miss our podcast next week - we'll be bringing you the spectacular Smithsonian Folklife Festival!