Fun fact: Monet could also see UV light-- at least, with one eye. He had cataract surgery late in life and removing the lens changed the way he was able to perceive color. As a consequence, his paintings began to take on a lot more purple hues This is 'The House Seen From the Rose Garden'-- with two paintings he made of the same place, showing the colors he was seeing through the eye with cataracts (left) and the UV-inspired colors he was seeing through the other eye after surgery (right)