From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography
''No one writes art like Laura Cumming'' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale
''I will 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, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite painting, The Goldfinch - had been at work in his studio. He, along with many others, would not survive the day.
In Thunderclap, Laura Cumming reveals her passion for the art of the Dutch Golden Age and her determination to lift up the reputation of Fabritius. She reveals the Netherlands, where
