In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh's painting“Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset ... “Immense lemon-yellow disc for the sun. Green-yellow sky with pink clouds.

Green-yellow sky with pink clouds. The field is violet, the sower and the tree Prussian Blue.” Van Gogh’s painting was inspired ... and ripens the seed.” The theme of the dignity of labor ...

The painting reflects his optimism. In November 1888, van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, in whom he frequently confided, about “Sower at Sunset.” He described its beautiful colors: “Immense ...