{"id":736,"date":"2003-06-17T03:43:30","date_gmt":"2003-06-17T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"astro-sleuths-solve-an-art-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"astro-sleuths solve an art mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Art historians know that in 1889 Vincent van Gogh  painted one of his masterpieces, &#8220;Moonrise,&#8221; but they were never able to  pinpoint the exact moment portrayed in the painting. (Never let it be  said that art historians are less obsessed than scientists in their  quest for precise measurements.) Enter astronomer Donald Olson of  Southwest Texas State University and his colleagues. As they report in  the July issue of <em>Sky &amp; Telescope<\/em> magazine, the team traveled to   Saint-Remy-de-Provence in France to identify the landmarks in the  painting. They then consulted topographical and lunar maps, aerial  photographs, weather records, and van Gogh&#8217;s letters to help them  calculate the precise time and date of the painted scene: 9:08 p.m. on  July 13, 1889. Our long international nightmare of ignorance is finally  over. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/17\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art historians know that in 1889 Vincent van Gogh painted one of his masterpieces, &#8220;Moonrise,&#8221; but they were never able to pinpoint the exact moment portrayed in the painting. (Never let it be said that art historians are less obsessed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}