29+ The Goldfinch Painting Symbolism Images. While theo could not save his mother, he was able to save the painting, which is a metaphor for permanence, beauty, hope and light in the world. In artistic symbolism, the goldfinch has been used to depict inspiration and motivation.

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He painted the goldfinch with clearly visible brushstrokes. The painting was given a room all her own. Not sure what you mean by goldfinch?

Thus the goldfinch came to be a symbol of endurance and, in the case of paintings of the madonna and child this symbolism was transferred to the it was precisely these three 'curses' that resulted in the predicament of the bird in fabritius's painting.

He depicted the wing in thick yellow paint. One could call it fate. The painting was going up for sale at sotheby's. 8,275 likes · 59 talking about this.