Van Gogh’s “Self-portrait with bandaged Ear and Pipe” shows that the painter had lost none of his artistic skill—and it has ...
The hospital in Arles where Vincent van Gogh stayed after he cut off his ear (photograph by the author for Hyperallergic) Vincent van Gogh had big dreams for his stay in the town of Arles, for the ...
Vincent van Gogh, “The Night Café” (1888), oil on canvas (Yale University Art Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons) Shortly before Christmas, 1888, as the story goes, while living in Arles, France, and ...
Ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent among the gods. The preserved corpse — called the Ach (Egyptian for “shining” or “spirit”) — entered a sarcophagus ...