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The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas

In 1889 The Starry Night was painted at Saint-Rémy. The instrument is that canvas as a public asylum-period object, not a later New York purchase. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1889 The Starry Night was painted at Saint-Rémy. The instrument is that canvas as a public asylum-period object, not a later New York purchase. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He painted it from the asylum. Later MoMA ownership is reception, not his 1889 act. Confinement remains a cost row.

Context

Dr Peyron's asylum is the named setting. Sharing that confinement setting is required. The confinement row remains the cost path. The setting of The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas is the public file around 1889-06-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Improving path from The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas on 1889-06-01. A public asylum-period canvas is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.48 · verified

    He painted it from the asylum. Later MoMA ownership is reception, not his 1889 act. Confinement remains a cost row.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.MoMA — Vincent van Gogh artist page (Roulin neighbourhood)Museum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Goupil neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: MoMA — Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night neighbourhood at https://www.moma.org/artists/2206 (opens in a new tab) (Museum of Modern Art). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: MoMA — Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night neighbourhood (https://www.moma.org/artists/2206 (opens in a new tab); Museum of Modern Art). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas under 1889-06-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas under 1889-06-01.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1889-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVincent van Gogh
  2. contributed toFactThe Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-starry-night

https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-starry-night

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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