Travel in Europe now turn to discuss the audio guides, practical method that allows us to learn more about the sites, monuments and walks that visit, with entertaining stories and practices available on our mobile, MP3 or iPod at all times.
Today’s choice is an interesting proposal comes from London’s National Gallery in London, UK.
Given the trend to the audio guides for museums now joined in offering some of his most important trips in mp3 format. For those who still can not visit the gallery, a listening tour will increase your wishes while touring the beautiful halls and enjoy more than 250 paintings discussed by experts.
When visiting the gallery we will find works by artists of different eras. Some like Aertsen, Ochtervelt, Machiavelli, Maes, Tailasson and Warren, among others.
The audio tour allows us to discover, for example, “Cavalry attacked by infantry” by Jacob Weier. He portrays the intensity of the battle and the date of the work, which dates from 1645, reflects his beginnings as a painter.
Another interesting visit is the retrospective of Andrea del Verrocchio, one of the great sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. Among his students include Leonardo Da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi.
The conservation work in the gallery have helped to discover the identity of Verrocchio in the authorship of some works, but with the audio guide we will know the secrets of the gallery