Van Gogh - The Starry Night

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889, having mentioned the morning star in a letter to his brother Theo written around the 2nd of June 1889: “This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big.” The morning star (actually the planet Venus, not a star) is generally taken to be the large white one painted just left of the center of the painting.