My dear friends,
I have just found one great database where you can find all letters that Van Gogh have written… Hope you will enjoy it…
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html
In the eighteenth century, the pamphlet was ubiquitous in western Europe and in the British colonies of North America. As brief, topical publications, pamphlets ranged in length from a few pages to well over one hundred; their print runs were as low as a few hundred copies or as high as several thousand. Once printed and published, they were sold at modest prices or distributed free (gratis). This favored form of publication offered authors a means of expressing themselves openly, anonymously, and relatively inexpensively. In countries with severe publication restrictions, individuals were able to produce illegal brochures and usually avoided detection or arrest because neither the authors nor the printers were readily identifiable. Even in locales like England, with no overt government censorship, the anonymous pamphlet allowed its author to speak boldly, with little fear of running afoul of the libel laws.
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Jerusalem (῾Ιεροσόλυμα), the present Old City, lies near the summit of the Judaean Hills on a pair of rocky spurs sloping south toward the junction of two valleys, the Hinnom (Gehenna) to the west and south and the Kidron (Valley of Jehosophat) to the east. The eastern spur includes the ancient Temple Mount, now the Ḥaram al-Sharīf. The broader and higher western spur, in antiquity nearly bisected by a transverse valley, terminates in Mt. Sion (Zion), towering above the Hinnom Valley.
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“Vincent” is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, “Starry Starry Night“, a reference to van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night. The song also describes different paintings done by the artist.
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Here we have one post that I read on wonderful blog The Victorian era.I believe that is interesting to see something like that, and to see how this theme found its way to art… in drawing of course.
http://19thcentury.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/female-hysteria/
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In the eighteenth century, the pamphlet was ubiquitous in western Europe and in the British colonies of North America. As brief, topical publications, pamphlets ranged in length from a few pages to well over one hundred; their print runs were as low as a few hundred copies or as high as several thousand. Once printed and published, they were sold at modest prices or distributed free (gratis). This favored form of publication offered authors a means of expressing themselves openly, anonymously, and relatively inexpensively. In countries with severe publication restrictions, individuals were able to produce illegal brochures and usually avoided detection or arrest because neither the authors nor the printers were readily identifiable. Even in locales like England, with no overt government censorship, the anonymous pamphlet allowed its author to speak boldly, with little fear of running afoul of the libel laws.
