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Identity Crisis: The Self-Portrait of a Thirteen-Year-Old Van Gogh
Identity Crisis: The Self-Portrait of a Thirteen-Year-Old Van Gogh
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2020
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Podcast episode
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The person in the photograph of a thirteen-year-old Vincent Van Gogh
What did the influential Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh actually look like? Popular culture and media have propagated the belief that there have been only two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh himself. If his written exchanges are to be believed, Vincent despised self-portrait photography. However, a recent breakthrough study in the Brill journal Oud Holland suggests that there are not just two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh. There is just one.
So, what about the second photograph?
Teio Meedendorp, Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, discusses the breakthrough discovery he made with his co-author Yves Vasseur, General Commissioner of Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture. Listen to this podcast now!
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What did the influential Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh actually look like? Popular culture and media have propagated the belief that there have been only two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh himself. If his written exchanges are to be believed, Vincent despised self-portrait photography. However, a recent breakthrough study in the Brill journal Oud Holland suggests that there are not just two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh. There is just one.
So, what about the second photograph?
Teio Meedendorp, Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, discusses the breakthrough discovery he made with his co-author Yves Vasseur, General Commissioner of Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture. Listen to this podcast now!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jan 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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