Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers
1888
Vincent van Gogh
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
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- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Year
- 1889
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
- Period
- 19th century
- Style
- Landscape
- Format
- Landscape
Dutch painter; with his thick brushwork and intense colour, the best-known name of Post-Impressionism.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
Van Gogh never saw this night, at least not the way it looks here.
- He painted it in June 1889 at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, working by day from memory of the view from his bedroom window.
- There was no village in that view: the church and houses came from his imagination.
- The brightest “star” beside the cypress is most likely Venus; astronomers have calculated it shone brightly at dawn at the time.
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