It might seem logical that Vincent van Gogh, the most famous depressive in all of art, adopted the Mediterranean cypress tree as a motif. The tall, tapered, cone-shaped evergreen has always ...

The cypress and the palm are Renaissance Art History 101. Like the blue of the Virgin’s robe, or the lily at the annunciation, the trees are key symbols in Christian art.

I’ve noticed three or four big cypress trees on the McNay (Art Museum) property along North New Braunfels where the new landscaping and new fence were put in. If my limited botanical knowledge ...

An evergreen that lives for hundreds of years, the cypress became a fixture in Van Gogh’s oeuvre beginning with his move to Arles, France, in February 1888.

Photo ©the Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, New York. “ Van Gogh’s Cypresses ” will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, May 22 ...

A spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will focus on van Gogh’s fascination with the flamelike cypress trees, seen in “Wheat Field With Cypresses’’ (1889), during his years ...

Van Gogh’s Cypresses at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, curated by Engelhard Curator of Nineteenth-Century European PaintingSusan Alyson Stein, both showcases Van Gogh’s exploration of cypress ...

This bald cypress tree is 83 feet tall, 17 feet in diameter and is estimated to be about 1,500 years old. For reference, mature bald cypresses typically range from 50 to 70 feet in height and 20 ...