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 ...

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of the Dutch post-Impressionist's best-known masterpieces, famous for its dreamy ...

Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the ...

As a result, one can look at "The Starry Night" and see a scientifically accurate representation of turbulent, cascading ...

Researchers believe van Gogh spent enough time observing nature that he began to intuitively understand how turbulence ...

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.

After measuring the relative scale and spacing of the whirling strokes, the researchers say van Gogh "accurately captures" ...

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 ...

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

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 a deep ...