Cumming, Laura

"New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch, and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring--two of the greatest artists of the 17th century"--.

"[The author] shares the . . . story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village--and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades"--Amazon.

Follows the investigation into the long-lost painting of Prince Charles by Diego Vel?zquez, which as eluded art experts for generations.