The Starry Night facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Starry Night |
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| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1889 |
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| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (28.7 in × 36+1⁄4 in) |
| Location | Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from a window just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
The Starry Night is one of the most recognized paintings in Western art.
It was one of the last paintings he made.
Painting materials
The painting was investigated by the scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The pigment analysis has shown that the sky was painted with ultramarine and cobalt blue and for the stars and the Moon Van Gogh employed the rare pigment indian yellow together with zinc yellow.
- Details of Van Gogh's ''The Starry Night'' exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of New York.
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Moon
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Venus
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Hills and sky
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Left part of the canvas and frame
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Stars in the sky
Images for kids
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The Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
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Van Gogh's Starry Night (Over the Rhône), 1888, oil on canvas
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Sketch of the Whirlpool Galaxy by Lord Rosse in 1845, 44 years before Van Gogh's painting
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F1548 Wheatfield, Saint-Rémy de Provence, Morgan Library & Museum
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F719 Green Wheat Field with Cypress, National Gallery in Prague
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F1547 The Enclosed Wheatfield After a Storm, Van Gogh Museum
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F611 Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Rémy, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
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F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village, Van Gogh Museum
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F1541r Landscape with Cypresses, Van Gogh Museum
See also
In Spanish: La noche estrellada para niños
