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75 Mind-Blowing Facts You’ll Think Are Made Up (But Aren’t)
The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it ...
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At the MFA, Van Gogh's portraits reveal his capacity for friendship
An installation view of the "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts ...
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The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family
BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston ... a handsome young man with a hat and wispy mustache. After experimenting with how to portray Augustine, he embarked on a ...
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Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...
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Van Gogh’s loneliness
On A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist, by Miles J. Unger. “You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It ...
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Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion
The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...
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Long-lost van Gogh painting was sold at Minnesota garage sale for $50, according to report
Experts at a New York-based art data science firm believe a long-lost piece by Vincent van Gogh was sold at a garage sale in Minnesota and recently published a report about its investigation.
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Was a multi-million Vincent van Gogh masterpiece found in a garage sale?
Has a previously unknown €14.5 million Vincent van Gogh painting been discovered at a garage sale in Minnesota? An antiques collector picked up a painting for $50 (€48) at a garage sale in ...
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Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers ...
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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
The night before Christmas Eve 1888, Paul ­Gauguin slipped out of the house he was ­sharing with Vincent Van Gogh to take a walk ... a small man in a bowler hat grasped Gauguin's arm.
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Van Gogh’s Starry Night is back in Arles, revealing more of its mysteries
Van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône (September ... the story emerged that while on the riverside he had worked wearing a hat with candles placed around the brim. This seems very unlikely ...