Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming Groundswell Speaker 2024 In this book

In this book

scarcely if ever read

one prejudiced missionary lands on the island's shores

friendship and memory

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming Groundswell Speaker 2024 In this bookA beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'We see with everything that we are'. On the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft. The thunderclap was heard over seventy miles away. Among the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius, dead at thirty two, leaving only his haunting masterpiece The Goldfinch and barely a