Nobody Knows the Other Starry Night.
One Starry Night he painted in an insane asylum. But there is another.
Most people only know van Gogh’s first Starry Night. But there’s a second housed in Amsterdam:
In Starry Night Over the Rhône, he painted real gas lamps reflecting in the river—at night, on location.
Not memory. Not imagination.
A city. A moment. Still moving.
Most people know the painting.
They don’t know the details.
One was painted outside, at night, under real gas lamps
The other was created inside an asylum, and partly invented
The sky in one matches a real planet
The village doesn’t exist
And van Gogh didn’t even think it was one of his best works
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