Arles

It was full of warmth which restored Van Gogh’s health. He painted over two hundred pictures and he added a lot of color. While painting in Arles, he suffered fainting spells and involuntary muscle spells. In October, Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin got into a fight and Van Gough threw a fit and cut off his ear. So in May 1889, he was admitted into an insane asylum at Saint-Remy-de Provence. While…

‘Ephemeral… fugitive… contingent’: these words written by Charles Baudelaire in 1863 express the very nature of metropolitan life in the late nineteenth century. Urban renewal across Europe had given way to a new, fast-paced way of life, and nowhere was this more evident than in Paris: the then cultural centre of the western world. Crowds of people would converge upon Haussmann’s wide boulevards, swiftly navigating through the city to see and be seen by their fellow Parisians. Painting en plein…

Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. He was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. “He was named after his grandfather and stillborn brother who died a year earlier than Van Gogh’s birth” (Riter). He was the oldest child of Theodorus van Gogh, which was a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Community, and his mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Gogh grew up in a very religious family, and his father was a very strict man. “His father was a quiet, dignified, ordinary man, from whom Gogh inherited…

The Art Institute of Chicago is a Museum and art school located in the Michigan Avenue near Grant Park, across Lake Michigan in Chicago. It is one of the most important art museums of the United States, along with the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has one of the most important permanent collections of paintings of Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the world. Was founded in 1879 and was George Armour its first president. In 1893, the museum was…

peace and gave me a feeling of joy because I was looking at all Van Gogh’s successful artwork that he created while facing adversity. One painting that stuck out to me that I like is “Starry Night Over the Rhone”, he painted the painting in 1888 in Arles. It was one painting of a four-painting…

He often took his artistic subjects from mythology and from American history and folklore. In 1992, Lichtenstein created his own parody of Van Gogh 's “Bedroom in Arles” by giving the painting a more contemporary and modern feel. While Lichtenstein was known for many pieces of art, two of his most popular works of art are “Whaam!” and his highest selling painting is “Woman with Flowered Hat.” James Rosenquist…

executed during the reign of Diocletian. It has been difficult for historians and archaeologists alike to pinpoint a time when Christianity definitely arrived, but the Synod of Arles in 314 is a definitive time for a strong establishment of Christianity. A priest, a deacon and three British Bishops attended the council in Arles. Along with the council of Arminium in 360 AD, it proved that a church hierarchy was present in Britain at the stage.* It was only after this legalisation of…

and Vaucluse. In the second century BCE, the Romans began their conquest of the region and called it “Provincia Romana”. Nowadays, throughout Provence you still see numerous historic Roman monuments that have lasted for centuries. These include The Arles amphitheater, the amphitheater of Nimes, and the Pont du Gard. I am going to be staying in Avignon, which is a town full of history and…

The Apostle’s Creed The Apostles Creed is the creed most widely used in Christian worship in the western world. Throughout the Middle Ages it was generally believed that this creed was composed by the Apostles on the day of Pentecost and that each of them contributed one of the twelve sections. This appears to be a legend dating back to somewhere between the 4th and 6th Centuries. However it still has good reason to be called the Apostles Creed because its content is in agreement with apostolic…

Councils, settling disputes regarding the Holy Trinity, the duality of Christ, the question of grace, and other heresies. The baselines of these principles have resulted in various schisms, some of which are still prevalent today. From the Council of Arles in 314 AD to the Fourth Ecumenical…