He slashed his ear before Christmas in 1888 & painted a "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" soon after
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Van Gogh: Why he cut off his ear - CNN.com  5 hours ago ... A visitor snaps a picture of "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear," by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. ... (CNN) It was the night before Christmas Eve in 1888 -- a cold ... Van Gogh suffered a breakdown and cut off his ear after receiving a letter ... learned of his brother's engagement long after the ear episode.
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Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia  Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 ... He sold only one painting during his lifetime and became famous after his suicide at 37, which...
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Van Gogh chops off ear - Dec 23, 1888 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Van Gogh chops off ear on Dec 23, 1888. ... He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. ... his friend with a knife before turning it on himself and mutilating his ear lobe. Afterward, he allegedly wrapped up the ear and gave it to a prostitute at a nearby brothel.
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Van Gogh 'cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry' | Art and ...  1 day ago ... Van Gogh 'cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry' ... Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. ... learned of it in a letter from Theo delivered on Sunday 23 December 1888. ... Christmas Eve, where he found the police on the doorstep, and the artist ... Van Gogh  Painting  Art...
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The Saga of Van Gogh's Ear - History in the Headlines  Dec 26, 2013 ... Finally, two days before Christmas, never a happy time for Van ... "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" by Vincent van Gogh. ... Nine weeks after Gauguin knocked on the front door of his Yellow ... The slashing severed Van Gogh's auricular artery, and he bled heavily. ... Van Gogh Painted Mutant Sunflowers...
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This question originally aired on March 23, 2007... | Jeopardy ...  Mar 23, 2007 ... ... DEVICES Question: In 1901 this wounded pres. was treated by a gynecological surgeon who used a sewing needle to close him up Answer:.
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to view Dr. Pappas's annotated bibliography of the collection  portant for the Ear Nose and Throat collection at the Reynold's Li- brary to ... Diseases of the ear were studied by healing practitioners even be- fore Christ ... Eustachian tube. .... He named the helicotrema, .... the first to describe the connection between the ... 1552-1616). Iulii ... Part II, dealing with the ear and illustrated by.
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Self-destructive lifestyle cut artist's life short | chronicle.augusta.com  Mar 18, 2001 ... Self-destructive lifestyle cut artist's life short ... should be hailed as the high prince of American art, the visionary ... New York when the intoxicated Mr. Pollock lost control of his car and ... 11, 1956, in a drunken-driving accident in New York. Art: Best remembered for his drip paintings, which he created by...
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Today in History December 31  1899 Dec 31, Karl Millocker (57), Austrian conductor and composer, died. ..... 1992 Dec 31, President Bush visited Somalia, where he saw firsthand the famine...
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"The Scream" - Edvard Munch - Painting Location - Oslo, Norway ...  "The Scream" (various media 1893-1910) - Edvard Munch - Painting Location: ... The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) did several versions of "The ... who seem oblivious to the situation, in the background you can also see the .... The Self-portrait above is actually called, "Self-portrait with skeleton arm" and...
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Conductor Stabs Self With Baton, Continues Performance | History ...  Mar 30, 1975 ... Conductor Stabs Self With Baton, Continues Performance ... Uruguayan master conductor Jose Serebrier accidentally stabbed himself in the ... During a lull in the music, he removed a wooden fragment from his hand and...
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Van Gogh chops off ear - Dec 23, 1888 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe ... and on December 23, in a fit of dementia, Van Gogh threatened his friend with a ... and the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) inform residents of Times Beach, ... a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, kills more than 10,000...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Nov 20, 2009 ... Alex Trebek wrote: ______ ARTISTS ______. His drinking and arguments with friend Gauguin may have led to his self-inflicted ear "surgery".
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Self-Portrait (Drer, Munich) - Wikipedia  Self-Portrait is a painting on wood panel by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Drer. Painted early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three ... The self-portrait is most remarkable because of its resemblance to many ... The lightness of touch and tone seen in his earlier two self-portraits has been...
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Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia  Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most ..... Van Gogh returned to Etten in April 1881 for an extended stay with his parents. .... Two years later, Vincent and Theo paid for the publication of a book on ..... Van Gogh entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum on 8 May 1889,...
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On May 8 1889, van Gogh took the train to St. Rmy where he ...  ... St. Rmy where he checked himself into the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. ... Starry Night (1889), Irises (1889), & Wheat Field with Cypresses(1889) are among those he painted while in the ... Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night 1889 (detail).
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Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear | Post-Impressionism ...  Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, oil on canvas, 60 x 49 cm ... The same note of stoic optimism, if one wishes to read the painting this way, ... And though for a short time he did get to carry on living in the Yellow House, .... from a purely art historical point of view, it is here in his brushwork and in his...
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This Is What Happened to the First Person to Get the Rabies ... - Time  Jul 6, 2015 ... Apic/Getty Images Joseph Meister, who received inoculation of the ... was ever administered to a human beingon this day in 1885was by Pasteur himself. ... For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a ... He committed suicide in 1940, shortly after Germany invaded...
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John 18:10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck ...  Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high ... a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear.
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Leader: The case of a brass band conductor who stabbed himself ...  May 27, 2003 ... A few may even have been aware of a disturbing precedent: at a concert ... the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully stabbed himself in the foot while...
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Explore This Work - Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait  Self-Portrait; 1889: oil on canvas: overall: 57.79  44.5 cm (22 3/4  17 1/2 in.) ... For many artists, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh, the self-portrait was a critical exploration of ... Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear, 1889. ... The artist believed, however, that the painting seen here captured his true character..