“Lieuwe van Gogh loved it right away,” Strebe said. “He traveled very quickly with me to Boston, and I presented to all my colleagues at Harvard and MIT, and he even gave them a piece of his ...

Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but tortured Dutch painter, cut off his own left ear on this day in history, Dec. 23, 1888, following a fight with friend and fellow artist Paul Gaugin.

She found the so-called “smoking gun” of the mystery — a diagram drawn by Van Gogh’s physician, Dr. Felix Rey, showing how he severed all of his ear except the lobe — a year into her ...

Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with bandaged Ear (January 1889) Courtauld Gallery, London. It has usually been assumed that Vincent did not hear about Theo’s engagement until after he had slashed ...

Yes, you heard correctly. A museum in Germany has made a rather peculiar addition to its collection of art—a living recreation of Vincent van Gogh’s ear. Forty-seven-year-old artist Diemut ...

“Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence” (published by Frances Lincoln, Nov. 3, 2016) dedicates a full chapter to the ear-cutting incident, presenting a new theory on why one of the most ...

Previously, it was thought that Van Gogh cut off his ear because of a fight with his friend Paul Gauguin, who had been staying with him in Arles.Van Gogh had hoped this would be the start of a ...

Most anyone who's had a beginning art history class knows the story of how the great painter Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear during a fit of madness. Now a new book argues that ...

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A 3-D printed replica of Vincent van Gogh's severed ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The new revelation comes shortly after a letter from Van Gogh’s doctor, Felix Rey, revealed that the painter had cut off his entire ear on Dec. 23, 1888, not just part of it.