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The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889.It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
The latitude angle of 32° indicates that the globe was made in the Lahore workshop. [20] This specific "workshop claims 21 signed globes—the largest number from a single shop" making this globe a good example of celestial globe production at its peak. [21] The globe itself has been manufactured in one piece, so as to be seamless.
The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of van Gogh's more famous paintings, including Café Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month) and the June, 1889, canvas from Saint-Remy, The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on 2 October ...
"Starry Night" (Boy Meets World), a television episode "Starry Night" (Modern Family), a television episode; Starry Night (1999 film), a film by Paul Davids; Starry Night (2005 film), a short film by Ben Miller; Starry Night, a 2006 television commercial for Halo 3; Starry Night Productions, a television production company owned by Reinhold Weege
A starry mural in New York's Grand Central Terminal depicts a semi-accurate night sky. The ceiling is decorated with over 2,500 stars and illustrates a North American winter night sky around December 1 - February 28. [24] The constellation arrangement was a replicant of the 1603 star atlas that was created by Johann Bayer. However, the mural is ...
Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a celestial globe.