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''The Church at Auvers'' is an oil painting created by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890 which now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. The actual church is in Place de l'Eglise, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 27 km northwest of Paris. ==History== ''The Church at Auvers'' — along with other canvases such as ''The Town Hall at Auvers'' and several drawing of small houses with thatched roofs — is reminiscent of scenes from his Nuenen period.〔Lubin, ''Stranger on the earth: A psychological biography of Vincent van Gogh,'' Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972. ISBN 0-03-091352-7, page 230.〕 A certain nostalgia for the north had already been apparent in his last weeks in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence: in a letter written a couple of weeks before his departure, he wrote "While I was ill I nevertheless did some little canvases from memory which you will see later, memories of the North."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Letter 629: Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 30 April 1890 )〕 He specifically refers to similar work done back at Nuenen when he describes this painting in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina on 5 June 1890: The "simple deep blue" was also used in ''Portrait of Adeline Ravoux'', painted in the same short period in Auvers-sur-Oise. The foreground of ''The Church at Auvers'' is brightly lit by the sun, but the church itself sits in its own shadow, and "neither reflects nor emanates any light of its own."〔Erickson, Kathleen Powers. ''At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh'', 1998, ISBN 0-8028-4978-4. Page 171.〕 After Van Gogh had been dismissed from the evangelical career he had hoped to continue in the Borinage, Belgium, he wrote to his brother Theo from Cuesmes in July 1880, and quoted Shakespeare's image from ''Henry IV, Part 1''〔"And I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer’s horse: the inside of a church!" — Act 3, Scene iii.〕 of the dark emptiness inside a church to symbolize "empty and unenlightened preaching":〔Erickson, page 172〕 "Their God is like the God of Shakespeare's drunken Falstaff, 'the inside of a church'"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Letter 133 - Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : July 1880 )〕 The motif of diverging paths also appears in his painting ''Wheat Field with Crows.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Church at Auvers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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