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 ...

A 362-year-old painting of a tiny bird has become one of the most popular of its time. But will we ever know what The Goldfinch means? Alastair Sooke takes a closer look. On the face of it, it ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

Business is booming for “The Goldfinch,” and it goes beyond the bestselling novel and Oscar-bait movie that opened in theaters Friday. Centuries before author Donna Tartt came up with her Pulitzer ...

Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch is a small painting, roughly 9 x 13 inches, but it holds its own in a room filled with 15 Dutch master works by the likes of Hals, Steen, and Rembrandt. It is a potent ...

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 ...

Rembrandt’s star apprentice left behind only about a dozen paintings, all of which are masterpieces that had a lasting influence on Dutch art. Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this ...