On Thursday March 5th Year 6 went on a visit to the National Gallery in London. Each class had a talk about a picture from one of the National Gallery’s brilliant education team. 6LC’s talk was about the painting ‘The Ambassadors’ by Hans Holbein the Younger, painted in 1533. We didn’t just look at a copy of the painting, we sat in front of the actual picture, hanging on the wall in the National Gallery. That was amazing enough, then we learnt a lot about the painting- who was in it, why it was painted, some of the techniques used, what the items in the painting mean. We also learnt about the reason the 3D skull is at the bottom of the painting. 6RM had a talk about the painting ‘An Experiment on Bird in the Air Pump’ by Joseph Wright and 6JD had their talk about ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough.
Mr & Mrs Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough
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