Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Random House) Money and recognition were among Vincent van Gogh’s many painful ...

“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 ...

He had “a sun in his head and a thunderstorm in his heart.” These words about French painter Eugene Delacroix could as easily have been applied to Vincent van Gogh. From his turbulent emotional life, ...

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 ...

FILE - This June 21, 2011 file photo released by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, shows a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh dated 1887. Experts at the Van Gogh Museum say Monday, Oct. 17 ...

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 ...

Everyone knows Vincent Van Gogh's history the mad, suffering genius who cut off his ear for a prostitute and committed suicide in a cornfield with circling crows. But what if the stories are pure ...

“Van Gogh's art has always spoken to me in an indefinable way,” Petit said. “That's why it is ironic that my specialty, my passion should be in classical art and the friezes and frescos of ancient ...

Until now we have had largely one-dimensional books about Vincent van Gogh, beginning with “Lust for Life,’’ published in 1934 and made into a movie in 1956. It focused primarily on his troubled ...

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.

Reed Brown, the Quad City Arts Visiting Artist, is bringing to life an artistic legend most people know of, but very few know anything about -- Vincent Van Gogh. The full-scale show "Vincent," which ...