> I was unaware that some of the Post-Impressionists read many classical
> authors.

This comment from Christian Prigent is interesting in the context of Emma
Guest's remark above: "les ciels de tourbillons étoilés de Van Gogh doivent
autant à sa lecture de Virgile qu’à sa vision immédiate de la nuit
provençale."

The full text is at:

http://www.remue.net/cont/prigent02.html

Patrick Roper


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