Much gratitude belongs to my writing partners, Ioannis Avramides, Antonia Devine and Meghan Howard, as well as to Hannah Johnson from the Writing Center, for their invaluable aid in the drafting and revising of this essay. Also, many thanks to Kay Chubbuck of the Writing Program for her ever-constructive editing input and to Kati Lovasz from the Princeton Office of Information Technology for her technological aid.
I. Works by van Gogh
Gogh, Vincent van. Churchyard in Winter. Dec. 1883. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- - - . Churchyard in Winter. Dec. 1883. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- - - . Funeral in the Snow near the Old Tower. Dec. 1883. Collection Estate of Mrs. F von Werz, Munich.
- - - . Melancholy. Dec. 1883. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- - - . The Old Church Tower at Nuenen. May 1884. Foundation E. G. Bührle, Zurich.
- - - . Old Church Tower at Nuenen (“The Peasants’ Churchyard”). May/June 1885. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- - - . Sale of Building Scrap. May 1885. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- - - . Winter Garden. Mar. 1884. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
II. Other Sources
Brooks, David. The Vincent van Gogh Gallery. 25 Dec. 2004. 28 Dec. 2004.
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Erickson, Kathleen Powers. At Eternity’s Gate: the Spiritual Wisdom of Vincent van Gogh. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
Gogh, Vincent van. The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh: with Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence. New York: Bullfinch, 2000.
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Kempis, Thomas à. The Imitation of Christ. Trans. and Introduction by Leo Sherley-Price. New York: Penguin, 1952.
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Kodera, Tsukasa. Vincent van Gogh: Christianity versus Nature. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990.
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