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 found ...

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 ...

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 Alive opened at Winchester Science Centre in Hampshire on Thursday. The experience, which has toured more than 100 cities, animates iconic works such as Starry Night Over the Rhône and ...

Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night (1889), created (along with several other masterpieces) during the artist’s stay at an asylum in Arles following his breakdown in December ...

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 analysis by ...

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 captivating ...

Visitors gather around Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1889) at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) On a busy Thursday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Modern ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as it turns out, real science is also reflected in the iconic piece, a new ...

The study authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint to see if the laws that apply ...