{"id":3557,"date":"2023-01-12T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:27:56","slug":"national-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"National Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ive made drawings from the paintings at the National Gallery before, but on this visit I wanted to add some context by including the gallery space, the gallery assistants and visitors to the gallery. This approach also gave me the opportunity to look at the relationships between paintings hung side by side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Dido receiving Aenas and Cupid, Francesco Sulimena


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The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities, Murillo



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Perseus turning Phineas and his followers to stone, Luca Giordano



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An experiment on a bird in the air pump, Joseph Wright of Derby



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Adoration of the Shepherds, Guido Reni



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Salome receives the head of John The Baptist, Caravaggio



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The Rokeby Venus, Valasquez



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Ive made drawings from the paintings at the National Gallery before, but on this visit I wanted to add some context by including the gallery space, the gallery assistants and visitors to the gallery. This approach also gave me the opportunity to look at the relationships between paintings hung side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,253,13,711,778,265,29],"tags":[795,802,799,785,796,804,787,800,794,798,803,789,801,786,793,797,788,551,400,791,790,525,783],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-cities","category-london","category-museums","category-painting","category-portrait","category-uk","tag-angel","tag-bible","tag-book","tag-caravaggio","tag-cherub","tag-cross","tag-donkey","tag-elders","tag-experiment","tag-gabriel","tag-holy","tag-medusa","tag-mythology","tag-nativity","tag-science","tag-seraphim","tag-sheperd","tag-shield","tag-skull","tag-soldier","tag-spear","tag-sword","tag-velasquez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/head.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}