Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885 ...

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

Van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889, while staying in the Saint Paul de Mausole Asylum in France, where he was surrounded by nature. The asylum became a place of refuge for him, where he ...