Welcome to The London National Gallery. Please join me as we survey the Earthly and Sacred Realms, as represented by eight individual artists’ works in this public collection. The works we will be discussing have been set within the Earthly and Sacred Realms theme because of either their reverence to the earthly realm as it pertains to all things sacred, or to their sacred realm as it pertains to things here on earth. The London National Gallery, founded in 1824, has moved twice since its origin and is currently located in Trafalgar Square, here in London, UK. We house over 2,300 Western European paintings from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. All major traditions of Western European painting are represented here, from the artists of late medieval and Renaissance Italy, to the French Impressionists.1 One of the many things that individualizes the London Nationally Gallery, along with it’s rich history and devotion to maintaining such a large collection, is the fact that it is owned by the public of the United Kingdom.2 As such, admittance is always free, making the gallery accessible to all art lovers, from the seasoned critic to the young admirer.