Edinburgh International Book Festival interview: art critic Laura Cumming on her Fabritius obsession
He was the artist loved by Vermeer but killed in a gigantic explosion … is it time for Fabritius to get the respect he deserves? Laura Cumming discusses championing a Dutch master of miniature masterpieces. By David Robinson
It has started already. Go to Room 16 in London’s National Gallery and there’s now a good chance that there’ll be someone there already looking at Carel Fabritius’s 1652 painting A View of Delft. Smaller than most laptop screens, it can easily be overlooked in a room with two Vermeers. Until last month, it usually was.