Giorgio de CHIRICO, founder of the Metaphysical Art Movement, painted THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL AND THE AFTERNOON in Paris in 1912.
The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire
gave the Painting its title.
Nobel Prize winner, V.S NAIPAUL's
cold, bereft, partly autobiographical book
can be fully appreciated only by an immigrant.
Its title THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL,
was inspired by CHIRICO's painting.
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THEGOLDFINCH (HET PUTTERTJE),
Oil on panel, a trompe-l’oeil painted
by Dutchman Carel FABRITIUS in 1654,
the year of his death.
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands.
In the 17th century, goldfinches were
popular petsbecause they could be
trained to draw water from a
bowl with a miniature bucket.
trained to draw water from a
bowl with a miniature bucket.
The eponymous Fabritius painting
is a key element in DONNA TART’s 2014
Pulitzer Prize winning novel
THE GOLDFINCH
““The Goldfinch” is a rarity that comes along
perhaps half a dozen times per decade,
a smartly written literary novel that
connects with the heart
as well as the mind.”
–Stephen King
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THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING (MEISJE MET DE PAREL)
1665 tronie oil painting by Dutchman Johannes Vermeer.
Thought to be a portrait of his daughter.
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
by Tracey Chevalier tells the story ofn
sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed
by her brief encounter with genius ...
even as she herself is immortalized in .. oil.
sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed
by her brief encounter with genius ...
even as she herself is immortalized in .. oil.
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