a strange Dutchman, aspiring artist Vincent van Gogh. During his 15-month stay in the city of Arles, Vincent would paint more than 200 paintings that captured the people and places he encountered.

Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but tortured Dutch painter, cut off his own left ear on this day in history, Dec. 23, 1888, following a fight with friend and fellow artist Paul Gaugin.

The young prostitute Rachel, the recipient of van Gogh’s ear, reminds us of how stigma and social context shape a patient’s ...

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Vincent remained in hospital until 7 January. Two days later, on his return to the Yellow House, he wrote again to Theo.

Inside the night Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a razor, took it to the front desk of a brothel - and police accused fellow artist Paul Gauguin of trying to murder him.

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...

Yes, you heard correctly. A museum in Germany has made a rather peculiar addition to its collection of art—a living re-creation of Vincent van Gogh’s ear. The story most people have heard is ...

Van Gogh, a post-impressionist artist, famously cut off his own left ear during a psychological crisis in 1888 in perhaps what is the most famous act of self-mutilation in history.

A Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait probably never seen before was discovered at an art gallery in Scotland – accidentally – through an X-ray machine. The remarkable piece was found at the ...