Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, review: A luminous journey into Dutch art
Thunderclap is both a biography of the artist Carel Fabritius and a memoir of the author’s late father
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Art imitates life in a real explosion that almost destroyed The Goldfinch
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
Source: theguardian.com
Huge art show questions legend of Vermeer the lone genius
Huge art show questions legend of Vermeer the lone genius 935311 SHARE A new blockbuster Vermeer exhibition which opens on Wednesday aims to smash the myth that the Dutch master was a solitary genius who worked alone at home cut off from the world. The Louvre in Paris has gathered a third of the 17th-century painter’s canvasses for the show — the most ever shown in one place since his death — where they will hang alongside nearly 60 paintings by his friends, rivals and contemporaries. “We wanted to do away with the stereotype of Vermeer as ‘the Sphinx of Delft’...
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