{"product_id":"thunderclap-a-memoir-of-art-and-life-sudden-death","title":"Thunderclap : A memoir of art and life \u0026 sudden death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft. The thunderclap was heard over seventy miles away.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmong the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius, dead at thirty-two, leaving only his haunting masterpiece \u003cem\u003eThe Goldfinch\u003c\/em\u003e and barely a dozen known paintings. The explosion that killed him also buried his reputation, along with answers to the mysteries of his life and career. What happened to Fabritius before and after this disaster is just one of the discoveries in a book that explores the relationship between art and life, interweaving the lives of Laura Cumming, her Scottish painter father, who also died too young, and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a book about what a picture may come to mean: how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Cumming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44843070456065,"sku":"9781529922530","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE_16.png?v=1717687231","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/thunderclap-a-memoir-of-art-and-life-sudden-death","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}