Van Gogh Glass Ornament

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Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Glass Ornaments

Exclusive to NYCwebStore.com! Celebrate one of the most widely renowned paintings of all time with this collectible glass "Starry Night" ornament. Each ornament is faithfully reproduced from Van Gogh's 1889 original, displaying luminous, golden stars against a dark night sky.

Each Starry Night Glass Ornament is hand-crafted in Austria. Once the glass is hand-blown, it is intricately hand decorated with paint and glitter. As each of these NYCwebStore.com European Ornaments is hand-painted, you are guaranteed to receive a unique ornament since no two will look exactly the same.

NYCwebStore.com is proud to offer you these new and one of a kind Van Gogh Starry Night Christmas Ornaments, and we are sure they will be cherished in your family for generations. Each glass collectors Christmas ornament comes protected in a clear plastic pyramid box.
History of the Van Gogh's Oil Painting Starry Night 1889: When Vincent van Gogh was a patient in an asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France, he wrote to his brother Theo: "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 is another name for Venus, and it may be the large white pulsating form, just to the left of center in this painting. Van Gogh stayed up three nights in a row to paint the view from his window in the asylum, because, as he said, "the Starry Night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
But Van Gogh was not just painting an Starry Night as an image of what he saw. In fact, the church spire here is typical of Holland, the artist's native country. So this is a picture rooted in his imagination and memory as well--a fantastic, apocalyptic vision of the night sky. What others might have viewed as a placid scene, Van Gogh has rendered in heaving and churning waves. Each stroke of paint is more than a dab of color--it's a field of energy, as well.
The contrast between the chaos of the heavens and the quiet order of the village below this Starry Night is remarkable. The cyprus tree--known as the tree of death for its traditional associations with graveyards and mourning--creates a flamelike connection between the earth and sky. But for Van Gogh, a man of strong Christian faith, death was not ominous; it was the path to heaven.

Measures 3" in Diameter

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