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| 1622 births | |
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| 1654 deaths | |
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Carel Fabritius ( 1622 - 1654 ) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt 's most gifted pupils. Fabritius was born in Middenbeemster , where he is thought to have spent a while working as a carpenter. In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam along with his brother Barent Fabritius . In the early 1650s he moved to Delft but only joined the Delft painters' guild in 1652 . He died young, caught in the Explosion Of The Delft Gunpowder Magazine on October 12 1654 , which destroyed a quarter of the city along with his studio and many of his paintings. Only about a dozen paintings have survived. Of all Rembrandt's pupils, Fabritius was the only one to develop his own artistic style. A typical Rembrandt portrait would have a plain dark background with the subject defined by spotlighting. In contrast, Fabritius' portraits have light-coloured, textured backgrounds and delicately lit subjects. Moving away from the Renaissance focus on Iconography , Fabritius became interested in the technical aspects of painting. He used cool colour harmonies and a lighter control of colour to create shape in a Luminarist style of painting. Fabritius was also interested in perspectival effects, as can be seen in the exaggerated perspective of ''A View in Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall'' (1652). He also showed excellent control of a heavily loaded brush, as in ''The Goldfinch'' (1654). All these qualities appear in the work of Delft's most famous painters, Vermeer and De Hooch ; it is likely that Fabritius was a strong influence on them. LIST OF WORKS
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