A Life of Aching Beauty

Vincent van Gogh is one of history’s most celebrated painters, yet during his lifetime he was almost universally regarded as a failure. He struggled to find a vocation, was repeatedly rejected in love, depended on his brother Theo for financial support, battled profound emotional instability, and sold only one painting before his death. And yet, from the wreckage of that life emerged some of the most enduring images of beauty ever created.

This is therefore not simply a story about a troubled genius. It is a story about failure, faith, suffering, beauty, and redemption, and about what a person can leave behind when life does not turn out as hoped . . .