Art history
Did Van Gogh’s brother Theo have syphilis?
It is almost certain, and this could well be a reason behind Vincent’s suicide
Van Gogh’s potatoes: few artists would choose this subject for a still life
Vincent borrowed a casserole from his brother’s kitchen for the painting, which has just been acquired by Rotterdam’s art museum
Dramatic turn: how the theatre was integral to Rembrandt’s art
A new exhibition in Amsterdam explores how the Old Master's paintings and drawings were inspired and informed by the art of acting
Ten reasons why we love Van Gogh
It’s not only the art, but also his extraordinary life story
Revealed: How Tate briefly considered acquiring a Van Gogh self-portrait—which was later exposed as a fake
The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000
Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history
Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book
A Dutch museum wants to buy a Van Gogh painting from an English collector
The portrait of Gordina, whom Vincent was accused of getting pregnant, is worth around £5m
Van Gogh in 2023: the best-ever series of exhibitions
Other highlights include the dramatic recovery of a stolen painting and an astonishing donation
When Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ was bought by the National Gallery it was snubbed as one of its top 100 acquisitions of the decade
Omitted from the 1920s book, next September the masterpiece will star in a London blockbuster on Vincent’s art of Provence
Gauguin’s shocking claim: Van Gogh painted the Sunflowers 'following my advice'
The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death
Van Gogh’s 'Night Café': a haunt of prowlers, not a brothel
Vincent felt that the café he painted was where you could “ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes”
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘heretical’ writings on painting are spirited and contrarian
The Italian filmmaker—and occasional painter—was scathing about Picasso but delighted in Caravaggio
Where did Van Gogh shoot himself?
It may have been near the inn where he stayed—not in a more distant wheatfield
Van Gogh would have loved to see the National Gallery’s exhibition on Hals
We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise
‘Breakthrough’ attribution for Artemisia Gentileschi painting stored at England's Hampton Court
Royal Collection curators checked provenance records and pigments, tracing the work to Queen Henrietta Maria
Revealed: Van Gogh’s unknown period, exploring the landscape of the remote north
The first exhibition on Vincent’s visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair
Step inside Van Gogh’s London bedroom
It's 150 years since Vincent moved to Brixton, where he fell in love
In the spotlight: the only collector who bought a Van Gogh during Vincent’s lifetime
Anna Boch is celebrated with an ambitious exhibition, opening in Ostend
Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history?
Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”
What paintings did Van Gogh hang above his bed?
“Pictures within pictures” reveal more about life in the Yellow House
How Van Gogh inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits
But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House
Ten surprises about Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’
Vincent and his brother Theo once considered the painting a failure—and it only got its name in the 1920s
Van Gogh’s astonishingly bold painting of the church at Auvers, now on show in Amsterdam
The picture exudes spirituality, but after the artist shot himself, its priest refused to help bury him
Breaking a taboo: religion is being invited into three major museums
Working with Visual Commentary on Scripture, London’s National Gallery and Berlin’s Bode Museum and Gemäldegalerie are uniting art and theology
How Lavinia Fontana went from ‘prospect’ to first professional woman artist
An exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter at the National Gallery of Ireland tells the story of her unique circumstances and reveals the results of a recently restored work
Van Gogh was an early admirer of Vermeer: 'celestial blues and yellows.. I can’t paint as beautifully as that'
And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master
Mysterious Picasso portrait may be the key to Adrienne Fidelin’s place in art history
Fidelin, a Black dancer and model who was Man Ray’s partner and muse for years, is believed to be the subject of a Picasso portrait that has not been shown publicly since 1985
Van Gogh's thwarted dream: a painting by the artist blocked from display in a French café
A plan to show the €75m “Garden at Auvers” in the village inn where the artist died has been halted at the last minute, although hopefully temporarily
How Van Gogh’s drawing skills were once trumped by a 16-year-old girl
Discovered: a sketch by a pastor’s daughter, who sat beside Van Gogh when they both depicted a woman peeling potatoes
How Van Gogh’s 'Terrace of a Café at Night'—with its starry sky—was inspired by a friend’s painting
The work’s dramatic colour contrast echoes a Parisian street scene by Louis Anquetin, now on show at London’s National Gallery