National Gallery of Art, 1

In half a dozen or more visits over the years, I think we have gotten beyond the Sainsbury Wing just once. That's an indication of 1) our interest in Medieval and Renaissance painting, and 2) the quality and breadth of the National Gallery's collection. Our first visit on this campaign didn't even get us very far into the Sainsbury. We'll keep trying. Alas, because of COVID perhaps, the order of rooms doesn't permit a very chronological tour. But perhaps others are not as sensitive as I to moving from international Gothic to Rafael to the Rogier van der Weiden to Leonardo and then back to international Gothic. Etc. So bear with me...

The Wilton Dipyich, late 14th, thought to be Richard II's devotional
piece

Duccio (!), The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, 1315

Giovanni de Paolo, Saints Fabian and [a really
shot-up] Sebastian, 1475

Lower right detail: they were often invoked against
the plague: note the figure here is masked!

Another Duccio, Annunciation, 1307

Love the Ucellos: The Battle of San Marino, 1438

Gherardo di Giovanni, The Combat of Love and
Chastity, from Petrarch; his arrows break against
her shield; the chain she casts will bind him...late
15th

Cosimo Turo, The Muse Calliope, 1475

Muy famoso, Giovanni Bellini, The Doge Leonardo Loredan, 
1501; major Renaissance icon

Pisaello, Virgin and Child with Saints, 1435; I
was amused...St. George, on the right, in full armor
after slaying the dragon, and sombrero (needs
protection from the radiance of the Virgin and
Child)

Masaccio (!), an early one (?), before he became
Masaccio

Filippo Lippi, Annunciation, 1450

Lippi, Seven Saints, 1450; with attributes

Botticelli's Mystic Nativity, dated 1500; unusual
in almost every way: oil on canvas, the subject and 
treatment, etc.

A detail, lower right, that almost certainly comes from viewing
northern art, Rogier van der Weyden, Bosch?

Personal favorite, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, 1485; it's complicated

Another Masaccio before he was Masaccio,
Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, 1428

Jacapo de Cione, The San Pier Maggiore Altar Piece,
1370

Detail, right: probably not playing Scotland the Brave