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Interesting Art Stories 15 The Goldfinch Carel Fabritius ACJ Art Academy
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How are you? • On every Thursday, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”. • The 15th story for this week is The Goldfinch by the Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius. • “The Goldfinch” is a painting of life-size chained goldfinch. The goldfinch, the subject of this painting, is a bird that is widespread and eats seeds in Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia and is known to bring health and luck. A popular pet at the time, the bird could be taught simple tricks, such as lifting a thimble-sized bucket of water. • It is often seen in paintings in a symbolic sense as well as a colorful appearance. Including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Madonna Litta (1490–1491)”, Raphael's “Madonna of the Goldfinch (1506)” and Piero della Francesca's “Nativity (1470–1475)”, the bird appears in many Renaissance religious paintings. • Carel Fabritius, who created this painting, was born in 1622 in Middenbeemster, The Netherlands. Although he was not formally trained in art, he became a student of Rembrandt because of his outstanding artistic talent. Fabritius, who moved to Amsterdam in 1641, married his first wife the same year. However, after his wife's death in 1643, he returned to Middenbeemster and lived until the early 1650s, then to Delft where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1652. • Fabritius' works were well regarded by his contemporaries, and his style influenced other famous Dutch painters of the time, including Pieter de Hooch, Emanuel de Witte and Johannes Vermeer. In particular, it has been suggested that Vermeer was Fabritius' student, although it is not sure. • Fabritius died in the explosion in the city of Delft on October 12, 1654, killing at least 100 people and destroying a quarter of the city, including his studio and many of his paintings. “The Goldfinch” is one of the only three paintings he painted in 1654, the year he died, and one of his dozen paintings that were survived from the Delft gunpowder explosion. • The painting, which had been lost for more than two centuries after Fabritius' death and re-discovered in Brussels, is now owned by the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. • This painting also plays a central role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt and a 2019 film of the novel’s adaptation. • Thank you. • Lecture Program List • https://blog.naver.com/csydr/22099560... • English Blog • https://artcollagejang.blogspot.com/2... • Korean Blog • https://blog.naver.com/csydr/22199735... • Naver TV • https://tv.naver.com/v/14237862 • Naver Post • https://m.post.naver.com/viewer/postV...
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