Kathmandu. A new study has shown that the sky depicted in the world-famous painting 'The Starry Night' by painter Vincent van Gogh is similar to the actual sky on July 22, 1889. This suggests that he may have taken inspiration from the sky he saw from his asylum in France, not just from his imagination.
A South Korean research team, based on astronomical analysis, has concluded that the sky depicted in the painting matches the sky seen around July 22 from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France. This date is about a month later than the June 1889 date that art historians have long accepted.
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