The Strangest Paintings in the National Gallery - An In-Depth Museum Tour

In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you on a guided museum tour of the strangest paintings in London’s National Gallery.

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VIDEO SUMMARY

In today’s tour, we’re mainly focusing on Renaissance art – maybe there’s a part 2 in our future!

We start in Florence with Filippo Lippi and his rendition of the Medicis’ favourite saints, including one poor soul with a butcher knife through his noggin. We then move on to Southern Germany to meet a handsome woman with a realistic fly gag on her head, followed by two saints associated with the plague and a mysterious self-flagellating sect by Siena’s Giovanni de Paolo.

Still in the 15th century, we explore the mysteries of Piero di Cosimo’s Procris and Cephalus (Laelaps, is that you?), and move into the 16th century with Quentin Massys’s iconic Old Woman who has spawned a thousand memes. But was the Ugly Duchess actually a woman with Paget’s Disease?

We then head back to Germany to talk about Lucas Cranach’s vaguely seductive mother and son with Cupid Complaining to Venus, before visiting Bronzino’s explicitly seductive mother and son in the Allegory with Venus and Cupid (aka Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time).

Making our way into the 17th century, we spend some time with Domenichino’s punishment – a dwarf chained in the bottom of his Apollo Killing the Cyclops, and get chills down our spine with Rosa’s Lovecraftian Witches at their Incantations.

Finally, we end our museum tour with Winston Churchill, of all people, in Boris Anrep’s Mosaics.

0:00 - Introduction to the tour
1:33 - Seven Saints by Fra Filippo Lippi (1450)
5:00 - Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family by A Swabian Artist (1470)
8:25 - Saints Fabian and Sebastian – Giovanni de Paolo (1475)
12:20 - Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph – Piero di Cosimo (1495)
16:42 - Ugly Duchess - Quentin Massys (1513)
21:07 - Cupid Complaining to Venus - Lucas Cranach (1526)
24:40 - Allegory with Venus and Cupid – Bronzino (1545)
29:19 - Apollo Killing the Cyclops - Domenichino (1616)
32:40 - Witches at their incantations - Salvatore Rosa (1646)
35:38 - Anrep Mosaics – Boris Anrep (1928-1952)


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