Today we can easily appreciate Vincent Van Gogh's vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits, but his revolutionary style was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Including more than 200 illustrations, this eye-opening book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jackson Pollock presents samples of Van Gogh's works in comparison to paintings by such artists as Rembrandt, Millet, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet, helping us to see anew such works as Portrait of Joseph Roulin, Almond Blossom, Poppy Field, and The Potato Eaters.