Date: 18th November 2020
Time: 7-7.40pm
Venue: this is an online event. Following ticket purchase, details for a Zoom meeting will be sent via email on the morning of the 18th November.
The Lecture
Writer and arts journalist Dr Tim Smith-Laing will be taking us on a journey from the worlds of Pliny and Tertullian to Dutch flower painting. Focusing in on Abraham Mignon's seventeenth-century painting ‘The Overturned Bouquet,’ the lecture will look at the secret and not-so-secret messages of early modern still-life, and the meaning of realism in a world of surface, spectacle, and show.
Our guest speaker
A book reviewer at The Telegraph, Dr Tim Smith-Laing has also written widely on art and books for publications including The Literary Review, Apollo, frieze, and 1843. Prior to leaving academia in 2014, he took a DPhil in late medieval and early modern mythography, and spent three years as a lecturer in literature at Jesus College, Oxford. In addition to his Latin Programme teaching, he is a regular lecturer at the Royal Academy of the Arts, where he has given lectures on subjects ranging from the self-portrait through to the history of the labyrinth.
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