From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.
''No one writes art like Laura Cumming'' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale
''I shall never look at any painting in the same way again'' Polly Morland, author of A Fortunate Woman
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''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 dozen known paintings. For the explosion that killed him also buried his reputation, along with answers to the mysteries of his life and career.
What happened to Fabritius befo
