Calling All Book Nerds: Here’s Your Chance To See ‘The Goldfinch’ Painting In Real Life

Recognize this dreamy, gloomy bird? Come on, book nerd, this 17th century Dutch portrayal is usually job your name.

The answer? Why, it’s a goldfinch from Donna Tartt’s buzzed about book, “The Goldfinch.” You competence have identified a little bill and minute plumage, both of that look out of a author’s pseudo-torn cover.

The 1654 work of art by Carel Fabritius — a character, of sorts, in Tartt’s 2013 recover — is on perspective during the Frick Collection in New York City, partial of a “Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from a Mauritshuis” uncover adult until Jan 19, 2014. This is no doubt an art event usually critical portrayal enthusiasts and contemporary novel devotees will enjoy, though for those spooky with Tartt’s novel, we know we won’t skip it.

h/t The Gallerist

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