When scientists analyzed the swirls in the famous painting, they found Van Gogh depicted forces of nature with startling ...

Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night is scientifically accurate, according to a new study. His sky is “alive with ...

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 ...

Van Gogh painted Starry Night in June 1889, while he was living in an asylum in southern France as he recovered from a mental breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear around ...

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.

When Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced "The Starry Night" in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind. Yet according to a new ...

Huang’s team measured the swirls and brushstrokes in The Starry Night and used van Gogh’s color choices to estimate the sky’s movement. They found that 14 of the swirling shapes in the ...

The whirling shapes in Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night closely resemble the turbulence seen in nature, according to scientists. Researchers said the Dutch master’s work “reveals ...

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 ...

Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night is scientifically accurate, according to a new study. His sky is "alive with real-world physics" beneath the brushstrokes, say researchers. One of the ...