The post-Impressionist artist painted the work (often referred to simply as "Starry Night") in June 1889, and its depiction of a pre-sunrise sky and village was inspired in part by the view from van ...

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889. Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night. In May of 1889 ...

The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist ... They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie ...