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 ...

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 ...

And van Gogh's visionary landscape The Starry Night, done the next year, has long ranked as the most popular painting at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This inspired the museum ...