So, when it was suggested that Vincent Van Gogh cut his ear off under its influence, it was wrong to blame the booze. By this stage, absinthe had already broken through to America where the ...

Vincent Van Gogh was rather fond of absinthe. Like many of the artists of his period, a little too fond, perhaps. It was after drinking the concentrated spirit, in the south of France around ...

including Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Playwright Alfred Jarry saw his demise at the bottom of a bottle of absinthe, while Pablo Picasso dabbled in the drink for a ...

Absinthe, often called "the green fairy," is steeped in history, myth and mystique, making it one of the most intriguing ...

It was portrayed as a psychoactive drug and the alcoholic drink of choice among some of the greatest European and American ...