Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, March 30, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, July 29, 1890) is one of the world's most popular painters, both for the flair and originality of his works and for their ability to move and engage the viewer, establishing a unique communicative bridge which lasts over time. The Dutch painter, as brilliant as he was misunderstood during his life, became famous only after his death, which occurred under mysterious circumstances in 1890. Although he started painting at the age of 27 and lived a short life, he left us more than nine hundred paintings and a thousand drawings, as well as sketches, notes and letters. He spent his early years in his hometown of Zundert; afterwards he moved to The Hague, where he started working as an art dealer, and to London, where he lived for almost two years from 1873. Later in Amsterdam, fulfilling a religious vocation, he started to study theology and preached among the poor miners of the Borinage. He moved to Paris in 1886 and lived in the home of his beloved brother Theo. Here he had the chance to devote himself just to painting and to get to know other artists like Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec, discovering Impressionism and the infinite possibilities given by color. His painting, until then dense with light and shade effects and deep colors, burst into a rainbow of intense and bright colored sparks. Paris was a melting pot of ideas and tension that sometimes confused and disturbed him as well, and the confrontation with the harsh law of the market, which did not understand and rejected him, undermined his own stability. Vincent moved to the south of France. When he reached Arles in February 1888, he was self-confident and full of hope. With the start of the springtime, Vincent became heady with joy and fulfilled by the beauty of nature. He went to live in the famous Yellow House, near Arles station, and there he portrayed the enchanting Starry Night Over The Rhone and stayed for a few months happily with his friend Paul Gauguin. Because of their different characters, they soon fell out, and the accumulated tension resulted in the self-destructive act of Vincent, who cut off his own ear, with the consequence that Gauguin left Arles forever. From that time, depressive crises became more and more frequent and Vincent, in 1889, asked for help by being admitted to the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Rémy. He stayed there for more than one year, and during this time he drew, painted and kept an extensive exchange of correspondence with his brother. During the summer, he produced his famous Starry Night. The health and balance Vincent Van Gogh seemed to regain in Saint-Rémy convinced him to move to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he found a new home and a new friend, Dr. Gachet, as well as more landscapes, meadows and fields. In July 1890, after painting a wheat field crossed by three paths and a rough sky with a flight of crows, he ended his life with a gunshot. His turbulent life did not give him the justice he deserved. Vincent Van Gogh owes his posthumous fame to his brother Theo's wife, his sister-in-law Johanna Bonger, who, after her husband Theo's death, began a full-fledged promotion effort that included publishing the correspondence between the two brothers.