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Mutant double-flowered sunflower of the Teddy Bear type

A genetic research for the mutant sunflowers painted by Vincent van Gogh

Massimo Luciani March 30, 2012 0

The origin of the mutation of the special sunflowers painted by Vincent van Gogh was mysterious but a recent study by a team of scientists at the University of Georgia has identified the gene responsible.

1888 watercolor painting Breton Women and Chlidren by Vincent Van Gogh

A fluorescent white color found in a watercolor painting by Vincent Van Gogh

Massimo Luciani November 29, 2011 0

A research of the departments of Chemistry and Physics of the Polytechnic of Milan has uncovered that Vincent Van Gogh used a particular fluorescent white pigment in one of his 1888 watercolor painting “Breton Women and Chlidren” that gave this color a greater intensity.

Vase with Twelve Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh

Save Van Gogh’s Sunflowers!

Massimo Luciani February 18, 2011 3

While the exhibition dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh at the Vittoriano in Rome is about to close after being extended for another two weeks by popular demand, a research carried out by the Italian CNR, the University of Perugia’s Department of Chemistry, the University of Antwerp’s Departments of Chemistry and Physics, the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) and by the Esrf (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble has discovered why the yellow color of the sunflowers painted by the great painter is turning brown.

Vincent Van Gogh in Rome

Massimo Luciani October 4, 2010 1

Starting from October 8 and until February 6, 2011 Rome is going to offer and extraordinary exhibition at the Vittoriano complex: a lot of Vincent Van Gogh paintings but also various ones by Gauguin, Cezanne, Pissarro and Millet. The title is “Vincent Van Gogh: timeless country and modern city” to point out the artist’s favourite subjects.