Starry Night ☲ Van Gogh ☰ Woven Art Blanket dogs 1 (1871) by James McNeill

1 (1871) by James McNeill Whistler

and contrasts the extraordinary wealth of the magi with poor peasants and shepherds

commonly mistaken to be a turban

soleil levant) by Claude Monet is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement

Starry Night ☲ Van Gogh ☰ Woven Art Blanket dogs 1 (1871) by James McNeillThe Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. It depicts the view from his asylum room at Saint Rmy de Provence. Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the asylum after the breakdown that resulted in mutilating his left ear. The painting depicts the sky just before sunrise over an imaginary village, with a large cypress on the left, hills in the background, and waning moon in the upper right.