Tokyo station at night: Did you mean...?

An 1888 oil on canvas painting, The Night Café, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in September in place du Forum in Arles, France. It is the interior of the same café which features in the Café Terrace...

Queen of the Night, a large plaque made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief. From southern Iraq, Old Babylonian period, 1800-1750 BCE. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red. She wears the horned...

An 1888 oil on canvas, Café Terrace at Night, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in September in the place du Forum of Arles, France. The artist here uses the strong contrasting colours of yellow and...

A c. 1896 oil on canvas painting, Steelworks, Cardiff, at Night, by Lionel Walden (1862-1933). (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales)

The London Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain's capital by the German and Italian air forces from September 1940 to May 1941 during the Second World War (1939-45). The objective was to bomb Britain into submission, but despite almost...

An 1889 oil on canvas painting, Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in June in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. This is a view from the artist's window in the asylum he voluntarily admitted...

The Queen of the Night (also known as the `Burney Relief’) is a high relief terracotta plaque of baked clay, measuring 19.4 inches (49.5 cm) high, 14.5 inches (37 cm) wide, with a thickness of 1.8 inches (4.8 cm) depicting a naked winged...

This large plaque was made of baked straw-tempered clay, modeled in high relief. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red; note the trace of the red color on her left wrist. She wears the horned headdress characteristic...

An 1801 oil on canvas painting, Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. The scene captures the Bedlam furnaces at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England. (Science Museum, London)

Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and their allies take shelter at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris on the night of 9-10 Thermidor Year II (27-28 July 1794), where they plot an insurrection against the National...