Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

Van Gogh considered his now-iconic The Starry Night, which he painted from his barred window at Saint-Rémy, a failed attempt at abstraction. Before leaving Saint-Rémy, he wrote to Émile Bernard ...

Not everything in "The Starry Night" looks exactly as he would have seen it. For example, there was no village outside his window. Yet there's one part of the painting that van Gogh wouldn't have ...

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 ...

“Van Gogh didn’t simply want to replicate the view from the asylum window, he wanted to transform ... When he painted The Starry Night was he already thinking about the afterlife?” ...