Vincent van Gogh died in the early morning of July 29, 1890 in northern France, leaving behind nearly 1,300 works of art on paper, more than 850 paintings and a legacy for the ages. The season five finale of BuzzFeed’s hit series BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime explores the theories surrounding the artist’s mysterious death: Was Vincent van Gogh truly a tortured genius who took his own life, or was he the unfortunate victim of an accidental murder?
