Carel Fabritius’ Self-portrait (c. 1645, oil on panel, 65 x 49 cm.) was once believed to be the work of Rembrandt. Courtesy the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Rembrandt worked slowly. The ...
On the morning of October 12th 1654, the Dutch city of Delft was ravaged. A cache of munitions had been carelessly stored; a spark was ignited. The explosion razed the city centre to the ground. Whole ...
Detail from self portrait by Carel Fabritius. Photograph: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. In an extract from her new memoir, the Observer art critic tells the story of two ...
Carel Fabritius’ painting ‘The Goldfinch’ has not had an easy time of it, particularly in its literary life. In Donna Tartt’s celebrated novel by the same name (released as a movie this weekend), the ...
Freud never said that sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, but whoever did so was right. Can an image with considerable iconic suggestiveness be only itself? Can a goldfinch be only a bird? The famous ...
The long-awaited film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel The Goldfinch hit theaters this weekend, bringing in an underwhelming $2.6 million to finish eighth at the box ...
Laura Cumming’s new book tells how the work by Carel Fabritius, the Dutch artist who died in the blast in Delft, reveals eerie parallels with Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch began its strange life ...
A devastating explosion at a gunpowder store in the Dutch town of Delft in 1654 is the cataclysmic event at the centre of Laura Cumming’s latest publication, Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & ...
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