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Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction

鸟雀的观察与灭绝的思考

“The Goldfinch” by Carel Fabritius is one of the collection treasures at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.

“The Goldfinch” by Carel Fabritius is one of the collection treasures at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.

2026-02-12  1629  晦涩
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As a point of departure, they decided to take “The Goldfinch,” Carel Fabritius’s delicate 1654 painting of a songbird, which tricks the eye into thinking that the life-size bird is real. That depiction of a finch perched on a metal bar is one of the Mauritshuis’ highlights, and the subject of centuries of public fascination and creative inspiration: It was deeply admired by Johannes Vermeer, and is the titular subject of the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Donna Tartt.

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