Poses with wolves—guests team up with Game of Thrones canine stars at National Gallery launch

Saint Francis of Assisi is, after all, the patron saint of animals (the holy man even quieted a flock of noisy birds disrupting a non secular ceremony in response to a speculative story). London’s Nationwide Gallery is paying homage to the nature-loving saint in a serious present which opened this week that includes works by Caravaggio, Josefa de Óbidos, Stanley Spencer, Antony Gormley, and Giuseppe Penone. Hats off to the advertising and marketing supremo who introduced in a pair of statuesque (real-life) “wolves” for the exhibition launch which had been effectively behaved all through the VIP bash, posing serenely with friends. Our spies on the bottom say that the selfie-friendly creatures are on mortgage from an organization known as Watermill Wolves and as soon as appeared within the blockbuster TV fantasy drama Sport of Thrones. “The Watermill Wolves will not be in reality wolves, however are wolf canines,” says the corporate web site although “they do have various quantities of wolf dna.” The Nationwide Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi particularly loved having his pic taken with the lovable canines.