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Author Cumming, Laura, author.

Title Thunderclap : a memoir of art and life & sudden death / Laura Cumming.

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2023.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3066876~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  759.9492 CUM    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction-NEW  759.9492 CUM    DUE 05-10-24
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Description 263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary "New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch, and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring--two of the greatest artists of the 17th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Fabritius, Carel, 1622-1654.
Painters -- Netherlands.
Painting, Dutch -- 17th century.
Explosions -- Netherlands -- Delft -- History -- 17th century.
Cumming, James, 1922-1991.
Cumming, Laura -- Childhood and youth.
ISBN 9781982181741 hc.
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