oil - on - canvas painting dominated by night sky roiling with chromatic blue swirls, glowing yellow crescent moon, stars rendered as radiating orbs. one or two cypress trees flame - like, tower over the foreground to the left, dark branches curling and swaying to the movement of the sky that they partly obscure. structured village sits in the distance on the lower right of the canvas. straight controlled lines make up the small cottages and the slender steeple of a church, which rises as a beacon against rolling blue hills. glowing yellow squares of the houses suggest the welcoming lights of peaceful homes, creating a calm corner amid the painting ’ s turbulence.