He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...
‘In the mere sight of an old pair of shoes there is something profoundly melancholy’, wrote Flaubert to Louise Colet in 1846. Vincent van Gogh may have had Flaubert’s letter in mind (as well as a ...
At London’s National Gallery, a new blockbuster exhibition—“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers”—is examining van Gogh’s creative output between 1888 and 1990. As he moved between several ...
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône, 1888; Oil on canvas, 72.5 × 92 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Donation sous réserve d’usufruit de M. et Mme Robert Kahn-Sriber, en souvenir de M.
The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889.
Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes ...