Giotto, ceiling vault of the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel in Padua, ca. 1300 CE

http://artchronicler.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/giotto-and-the-arena-chapel/

There are no stars tonight...(Hart Crane)

There are no stars tonight

But those of memory.

Yet how much room for memory there is

In the loose girdle of soft rain.

-from "My Grandmother's letters" (Hart Crane)

Tennessee Williams reads...

http://vimeo.com/67002120

La nuit etoilee de Van Gogh

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la nuit etoilee

...The starry night of Vincent Van Gogh...

peint de sa chambre dans l'asile du monastere de St. Paul-en-Mausole a St. Remy-en-Provence en juin 1889.  Treize mois plus tard il s'est donne la mort (27 juillet 1890) a Auvers-Sur-Oise.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Nuit_%C3%A9toil%C3%A9e

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYEYPjHgJI

in English:

http://www.canal-educatif.fr/videos/art/27/vangogh-art-en-question-1/van-gogh-nuit.html

Starry Night/La nuit etoilee   Vincent Van Gogh   juin 1889  Museum of Modern Art

San Remy en Provence

See also/A lire

http://www.fondationlaposte.org/article.php3?id_article=454
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_de_Vincent_%C3%A0_Th%C3%A9o
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/4025296640_e23d0bc3a1_b.jpg

http://books.google.com/books?id=pdqT1kDZ-8MC&pg=PA250&dq=la+correspondance+de+vincent+van+gogh&hl=en&sa=X&ei=g4zWUdiEA-itiAKxtYGABA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA