The epilepsy of Van Gogh

Starry " night on the Gnaws", photographed by Schizophrenos, in visit in Paris (May 2007).

1888 - oil on cloth 72,5 xes 92Musée of Orsay, Paris, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Kahn-Scriber Giraudon / Art Resource, New York.

Sò that you would never be waited you for him, but the history has given badly us news respect to illustrious carriers of the sacred, among the most important: Alexander Magno, Giulio Cesare, Socrates, Pietro the Great one, Napoleon Bonaparte, the composer George Frederick Handel, the philosopher Nietzsche, the writers Moliére, Flaubert, Byron, Torquato Tasso, Dostoevskij, Dickens and, in senile age, Francis Petrarca, Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in the country of the wonder", the mathematician Isaac Newton, besides the Cardinal Richelieu, Pious pope IX, the czar Pietro the great one, Alfred Nobel, the creative Swede of the homonym I reward, and many others, among which notes personalities are also enumerated that have marked the course of the history of the art with the incisiveness of their work, what for instance says Michelangelo Merisi the Caravaggio and Vincent Van Gogh!

In this work of the artist of Groot Zundert, the constellation of the most greater Orsa or Gran it is easily individualized Wagon, that he has painted in September 1888, when it was found to Arles. In this case there is a reference to do to one letter of his to Theo:"[...] I am working on seven cloths from 30... and for last to a study of the Gnaws, of the city illuminated by the gases lamp-posts reflected in the blue river. Aloft the starry sky with the Gran Wagon, a twinkling of rose and green on the field blue cobalt of the starry sky, whereas the lights of the city and its cruel reflexes are bronzy red and green gold. [...] "

Many studies have been devoted to that that has been subsequently defined: "the illness of the genius", a form of epilepsy of the temporal lobe that has marked a lot of among the works of the artist, besides the sucitata "starry Night on the Gnaws", they also show up in the list: "The bedroom of Arles"; "You yellow house" and "Field of wheat with crows."

The epilepsy is a neurological chronic condition characterized by recurrent and sudden crises.You/he/she is commonly checked with the medicines, although experimental surgical methods are slowly taking foot. You/he/she must be specified however that pharmacological therapy is exclusively symptomatic, succeeding - at times effectively - to check the appearance of the crises, but in any way it is available an effective prophylaxis or a curative therapy.In the past the epilepsy has been in partnership to religious experiences and possessions demoniac hips. Historically the epilepsy had called her/it "Sacred Illness" since according to a vision to become populated believed that the epileptic attacks were a form of attack of the demons or however a demonstration of hidden power.Ippocrate underlined that the epilepsy would have been considered only divine up to when you/he/she would not have been inclusive. It can be revealed a great deal to every age and in different forms; gives his/her variety, it generically speaks of epilepsies.It is among the more frequent neurological illnesses: it has struck since three to the seven people every thousand, around 2 million and a half of people in the United States. In every country the prevalence is of 1%. The incidence is of 46,7 on 100.000 inhabitants every year and in Italy 25.000 cases a year.