Guided Tour: Revealing the black presences in the National Collection
There is a black presence in many of the works in the National Gallery’s collection.
That presence takes many different forms; blacks are depicted as kings, as slaves, as servants, as saints and sometime just as people.
In the Black Presence Tours each piece is considered from two distinct viewpoints. First as work of art in its own right in the national collection, beginning by looking at its genre, its artist and their technique and how they together inform the composition. Then secondly re
Fridays, 11.00-12.30, please meet in the Sainsbury Wing
£15 per session
National Gallery Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN
Fri 21 Apr 2017