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 ...

“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 ...

That dude could paint! There are biopics of artists that don’t ask more of an audience than that simple reaction. Not so with Julian Schnabel’s extraordinary At Eternity’s Gate, which features a ...