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Its story

In Pictor, that modern constellation created to honour the painter's easel, shines an A-type white star. Its light set out two hundred and twelve years ago, in the heart of the Napoleonic era, when Goya was painting the disasters of war and Beethoven was dictating symphonies over Europe. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it sheds a cool, almost mineral white glow. It is a serene point in a small, quiet southern figure, like a white brushstroke left on purpose across an almost empty nocturnal canvas.