Vincent van Gogh
1853–1890 · Person
Dutch post-Impressionist; sold one painting in his lifetime; mental illness; iconic Sunflowers, Starry Night.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, People, Master
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
Around 1853
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)