The city of Brescia offers art lovers a priceless opportunity to see nearly 100 of Vincent van Gogh's drawings together in a single exhibition. Because of their fragility and the fact that they cannot be exposed to light for great lengths of time, his drawings are never displayed in permanent museum exhibits. Therefore, the extremely rare showings of these works are the only chance to see them, and this is what Brescia is offering the Italian public. In addition to the drawings, ten of Van Gogh's most important paintings will also be shown, permitting a direct comparison with the drawings in terms of theme and subject. His well-known ideas about the close connection between drawing and painting is fully illustrated, day after day, in his poignant letters, and the exhibition strives to reconstruct this laboratory of thought and tragic beauty. It is accomplishing this thanks to the superlative help of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, which - alongside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - conserves more than two-thirds of the master's entire oeuvre. Thanks to an incredibly generous loan, all of the exhibited works - more than 100 - will come from Otterlo. They will be divided into five major sections relating to the different creative periods in Van Gogh's life: from the mine region of the Borinage,