Just a short post to bring to your attention the beautiful website vangoghletters.org.

I've been interested in Vincent van Gogh for many, many years now and if all you know about the man relates to Sunflowers, ears and that awfully saccharine Don MacLean song then you should endeavour to learn more.

Vincent was a prolific letter writer and the website is built around those letters, mostly to his brother Theo. They contain everything - politics, sex, religion, gorgeous descriptions of time and place - and reveal Vincent to be more than the mad genius he's so often characterised as.