One of the greatest painters you never heard of is Carel Fabritius,who was a Dutch Baroque painter (in this case, Baroque really refers to the time period, because the Dutch didn't share much in theme with their brothers in Italy and France.) Carel Fabritius's The Goldfinch is a small (think 8x10) oil painting, on board. It shows a Goldfinch, tethered to a feeding box against a flat, discolored wall. The effect is a trompe l'oeil trick designed to show you a three dimensional image of the life size bird suspended in air.
Fabritius (1622-54) lived a short life, dying in the great Delft gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654. He was the only one of Rembrandt's students to develop his own artistic style and was undoubtedly a great influence on my personal hero, Jan VerMeer.
My sad copy is the one on the bottom and I could never quite get the depth illusion Fabritius put into the original. (my colors are actually closer to the original than this image.)
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