In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

"What strikes me," he said, "is that, behind the sower, van Gogh painted the grain already ripe." Van Gogh returned to pastoral imagery throughout his career, capturing in quick, thick ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant setting sun ...

Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross (THE CONVERSATION) In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...