Vincent van Gogh was staying at the so-called Yellow House at 2 place Lamartine in Arles, France, on December 23 rd, 1888, when the incident in question took place.At the time he and his close ...

While most of us today might be unwrapping presents or roasting marshmallows, back then, Vincent van Gogh decided to unwrap... his own left ear. Yup—he cut off part of his ear. The incident ...

In the months after Van Gogh mutilated his ear, he created just two paintings of the hospital in Arles in which he stayed. By ...

The artist Vincent van Gogh is likely to have experienced two episodes ... famously sliced off his left ear during an argument. Van Gogh dismissed the episode as "a simple artist's bout of ...

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the ...

Vincent van Gogh moved from Paris to Arles in Provence in February 1888, when he was 34. By the end of the year, he was in hospital after mutilating his ear. In May 1889, he was admitted to a ...

Vincent van Gogh's “Irises” (1889) was painted during his stay in a psychiatric clinic after he suffered a mental breakdown. (all images courtesy Getty, unless otherwise noted) Success!

The charges come as soup was thrown over two famous pieces of artwork by Vincent Van Gogh. Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup over Van's Gogh's piece.