22, 29 September and 6 October 2025
11am - 12pm
Art and Scent: Smell, Symbolism and Spirituality in Art
Join us for an online series of talks inspired by the exhibition Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850–1915. Leading scholars will guide us through the invisible world of fragrance in art, and how scent was imagined, symbolised, and spiritually charged in Victorian and early 20th-century painting. From the olfactory imagination to sacred incense and symbolic flowers, these talks reveal how smell shaped meaning and emotion in some of the period’s most evocative artworks.
Content:
22 September
All the Smells That Aren’t There: Olfactory Imagination in Art
29 September
Fragrance and Feeling in Victorian Painting
6 October
Scent and Spirituality: Simeon Solomon’s Sacred Sensory World
How to attend:
All talks will be live online on Zoom and can be booked individually or as a series. Recordings will also be made available.
More information with full details on how to join online will be sent out by email in advance of the event (following the confirmation email).
Please visit our website to see more information about the content and guest speakers who will be taking part in the event.
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