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:

This is the other Starry Nights that van Gogh painted - Starry Night Over the Rhone

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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