The Starry Night was twice owned by Theo’s widow. Following Van Gogh’s death in 1890, Theo inherited all of his brother’s works. ... In this Avi Ofer-animated TED-Ed video, ...

“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovered.

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers ...

In “The Starry Night” and its dynamic sky, “the arrangement of the eddy-like formations crafted by van Gogh resembles the energy transfer mechanism in real turbulent flows,” the authors write.

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. Now, a new ...

Art & Tech Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Surprisingly Accurate, Say Physicists. Van Gogh painted the work in a windowless studio at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is not a masterpiece of flow physics—despite recent attention to its ...

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.