giovedì 27 settembre 2018

Art and astronomy: the stars of van Gogh

Notte stellata sul Rodano van gogh


«... watching the stars always makes me dream, as does the black dots that represent cities and villages on a map. Why, I wonder, the bright points of the sky cannot be as accessible as those on the map of France? " with these words Vincent Van Gogh turned to his brother Theo in one of the letters; the "luminous dots" that the painter would like even more accessible, are the trait d'union between the past and the present, between the desires of an artist and a fascinating scientific research ...