Volume 52, Number 12 · July 14, 2005
Small Wonder
By Benjamin Moser
Carel Fabritius 1622–1654 Young Master Painter
An exhibition at Mauritshuis, The Hague, September 23, 2004–January 9, 2005; and the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, January 28–May 16, 2005
Carel Fabritius 1622–1654
by Frederik J. Duparc, with contributions by Gero Seelig and Ariane van Suchteren
Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague/Staatliches Museum, Schwerin/Zwolle: Waanders, 160 pp., $35.00
On a tranquil autumn morning in 1654, 80,000 pounds of gunpowder exploded in the middle of Delft, destroying a third of the city. The ill-fated arsenal was located just down the street from the home of Carel Fabritius, 'the greatest artist that Delft or Holland ever had.'
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