Vincent van Gogh: Campagna Senza Tempo – Città Moderna. Vittoriano (Rome) until February 6th, 2011, by Daniel B. Gallagher

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“I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”

So sings Don McLean in the 1970 hit written while he was working for the Berkshire School District. The tune has come to immortalize Van Gogh as a stridently independent artist who struggled with sanity and took his life “as lovers often

 do.”

Cornelia Homburg has put together a show in Rome to demonstrate that, pace McLean, the legendary painter did in fact believe the world was meant for him, and he was not that independent in his approach to painting. He may have suffered extreme uncertainty in his private life, but Vincent had a clear vision of his professional goals and how he was going to achieve them.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller