Its swirls have long left art experts suffering for their sanity, as they try to work out whether The Starry Night was indeed real.
But now we understand, it seems, exactly which evening Vincent Van Gogh painted in his iconic work.
For, according to calculations by researchers, the piece depicts the sky as it was just before dawn on July 22, 1889.
The artwork is believed to show the view from the Dutch artist’s window in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
It had left critics bitterly divided over whether the scene had been real or was instead merely a figment of his imagination.
Yet it seems all that
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