Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but troubled Dutch impressionist painter, severed his left ear after a "blazing row" with fellow artist Paul Gaugin in Arles, France, on this day in history, Dec. 23, ...
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Scholars still debate the artist's motive. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Collection of Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via ...
In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph Roulin, ...
Ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent among the gods. The preserved corpse — called the Ach (Egyptian for “shining” or “spirit”) — entered a sarcophagus ...
Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face ...
Maybe you’ve dreamed of standing inside a roomful of Van Goghs, but could never in a million years afford round-trip tickets to Amsterdam to visit the Van Gogh Museum. Maybe you’ve always assumed ...