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Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant ...
Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...
Featuring 18,000 plants and works by three contemporary artists, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden celebrates the Dutch painter's love of nature ...
A current exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts puts Vincent Van Gogh’s portraits of the Roulin family into important context. The French family made the Dutchman feel like he belonged, and their ...
An installation view of the "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts ...
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...
On A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist, by Miles J. Unger. “You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It ...
The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...
Did Vincent van Gogh paint a portrait that sold for less than $50 at a Minnesota garage sale? It depends who you ask. In the summer of 2016, "Elimar" was purchased at a garage sale held in ...
An oil painting on canvas believed to have been created by artist Vincent van Gogh, which was purchased at a garage sale for $50 and later valued at $15 million, may be a fake, according to a new ...
Vincent van Gogh’s name is synonymous with the tortured artist trope, and it’s hard for museums displaying the famed artist’s work to shake this image. Yet, the Museum of Fine Art ...
Van Gogh’s assassination was followed a year later (2005) by the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. In September of that year, the paper published 12 illustrations under “The Face of ...