Vincent Van Gogh and his missing ear...

For more than 100 years, famous artist Vincent Van Gogh has been portrayed as a tortured genius who cut off his own ear as he battled with mental illness.

But it seems we may have been given the wrong impression.

A new academic study claims he did not cut off his own ear but instead had it chopped off by French painter, Paul Gauguin, in an argument outside a brothel over a woman.

This version is the result of a ten-year investigation by two German historians. More...

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