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He was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, a village in the southern Netherlands, near the Belgian border, to a father, Theodorus van Gogh, who was himself an anomaly--a Protestant clergyman in a predominantly Catholic region. With his high white collars, his erect posture, and his love for an unforgiving God, Theodorus demanded order, rationality, and unremitting guilt. His flame-haired oldest son was not the first Vincent van Gogh; a baby had been given the name a year earlier, but had died at birth. And, like most children who grow up consoling their parents for the loss of a child no one ever really knew, Vincent could never live up to the legend of his brother, ...