“A Power Seething,” the subtitle of Julian Bell’s short, fervent biography of Vincent van Gogh, comes from a letter Vincent sent his brother Theo in 1882. Although Vincent’s new calling as an artist ...

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890), born in Zundert, Netherlands, was the eldest of six children in a Protestant family. His father, Theodorus van Gogh, served as a minister, and his mother, Anna ...

Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art? Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37.

LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A leading Dutch expert on Vincent Van Gogh has poured cold water on the theory put forward in a new biography that the Dutch painter did not kill himself but was ...

It was the night before Christmas Eve in 1888 – a cold Sunday evening in the French city of Arles – when Vincent Van Gogh took the razor he kept on his small dressing table and slashed off his left ...