The Letters Project (the letters of Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890)
From 1994 to 2008 the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Hugens Institute (part of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science) in The Hague conducted in-depth research on the letters of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). The results of this study will be come publicly available in threefold:
1. A freely accesible website with all the 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, complete annotations and with new English, so people all over Europe and the rest of the world can benefit from it.
2. A complete illustrated and annotated book edition will be published in six volumes and three European languages (Dutch, English and French)
3. The presentation in a special exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum where about 100 letters will be on display Jury Citation: "The jury has highly appreciated the interesting project carried out by the Van Gogh Museum on the Van Gogh letters and in particular the incredible opportunity gave to the entire world of researchers and enthusiasts. Thanks to the digitalization and the free access on internet of the research, it is now possible to read the entire archive of the letters of the painter in their original version and translations. Moreover we really appreciated the possibility to see at the same time the reproduction of the original letter and their iconographic references. The projects on the World scale represents a very good example of diffusion and spreading of the immaterial European cultural heritage, contributing to the safeguard of the original autograph material" Notes: Typology: scientific publication; results of research