When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to capture a phenomenon known as turbulence, scientists showed by applying mathematics to the painting.

But if the painting isn’t by Van Gogh, where did this mysterious canvas come from? LMI Group titled the work Elimar (1889) after the word that is painted onto the canvas’s bottom-right hand ...

The most talked-about painting in America this week now has its own security guard standing beside it as it hangs on a wall at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Vincent Van Gogh’s “Une ...

When the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in 1889, he did so while staring out a window from his mental asylum room in the French town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. More than ...

Van Gogh sketched the views he saw from his room's window and painted in the asylum's garden and a makeshift studio. He completed about 150 paintings during his yearlong stay.. Not everything in "The ...