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Deja Vu
This Sunday, July 13, we will witness another nearly full moon. Interesting and deja vu for this reflects the precise historical moment Vincent van Gogh captured while painting the Moonrise
in Southern France in 1889. Using computer calculations, aerial photographs, trigonometry, topographic maps, astronomical charts and local knowledge, astronomers came to the conclusion that van Gogh could only have depicted the moonrise at that time and that date, that is, 9:08 pm on July 13, 1889.
The oil painting shows an orange disk of the full moon peeping out from behind an overhanging cliff jutting from distant foothills, which can still be seen today from the grounds of the Saint-Paul monastery at Saint-Remy where van Gogh was hospitalized. The reaped wheat in the foreground would indicate that this was a harvest scene corresponding with a July 13th date.
:: Bing Wednesday, July 09, 2003
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