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General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane (GPI), paralytic dementia, or syphilitic paresis is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder, and is caused by late-stage syphilis and the chronic meningoencephalitis and cerebral atrophy that are associated with this late stage of the disease when left untreated.
Van Gogh is believed to have had borderline personality disorder; he "displayed symptoms best consistent with a borderline (personality) disorder: impulsivity, variable moods, self-destructive behaviour, fear of abandonment, an unbalanced self-image, authority conflicts and other complicated relationships."
Jan Hulsker, Vincent and Theo van Gogh: A Dual Biography, Fuller Publications, 1990, ISBN 0-940537-05-2. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith: Van Gogh: The Life, Random House, 2011, 976 pages. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9; Ronald Pickvance: Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers (exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York: Abrams, 1986.
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in history. His death, from alleged suicide, has been brought into question as potentially being an accidental homicide. Pulitzer-prize winning ...
While in Nuenen Van Gogh worked on character studies of the local peasants. It was winter and there was little to be done in the fields, so Van Gogh was able to make connections to people through his father, a town minister. [2] Van Gogh's character studies culminated in his best known painting The Potato Eaters. Potatoes were a staple of the ...
Syphilis (/ ˈ s ɪ f ə l ɪ s /) is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. [1] The signs and symptoms depend on the stage it presents: primary, secondary, latent or tertiary.
On the death certificate of the Utrecht Clinic indicates that he died from a "chronic kidney disease progressed rapidly," [Death certificate signed in the Clinic of Dr. Willem Arntsz in Utrecht on January 25, 1891]. Unfortunately, the death certificate is missing, but appears in the biography of Van Gogh by Pierre Leprohon. [Leprohon P. "Van Gogh".
Van Gogh had made a Size 30 version of The Reaper (also known as Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun, F617) in June 1889, which is now held by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. He also made two similar versions of The Reaper in September and October 1889: a second Size 30 version (F618) is held by the Van Gogh Museum , and a smaller Size 20 ...