The Lecture

Writer and arts journalist Dr Tim Smith-Laing will be taking us on a brief trip from Pliny and Tertullian to Dutch flower painting. Focusing in on one 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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