The Monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole (French: monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole) is a former Roman Catholic 11th—century Benedictine monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France. It was later administered by the Order of Saint Francis in 1605.
Monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole | |
 Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole | |
  Location within France | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole |
| Established | 11th century |
| Disestablished | French Revolution |
| Diocese | Avignon |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | secularized |
| Heritage designation | National Historical Monument |
| Designated date | 1883 |
| Style | Romanesque |
| Site | |
| Coordinates | 43°46′36″N 4°50′07″E / 43.776668°N 4.835159°E |
Several rooms of the building have been converted into a museum to honor the famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, who stayed there in 1889–1890 at a time when the monastery had been converted to a lunatic asylum. At this site, van Gogh created his magnum opus, The Starry Night.
History
editThe monastery was built in the 11th century. Franciscan monks established a psychiatric asylum there in 1605.
Van Gogh
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In the aftermath of the 23 December 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear,[1][2] Vincent van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on 8 May 1889.[3][4] Housed in a former monastery, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole catered to the wealthy and was less than half full when Van Gogh arrived,[5] allowing him to occupy not only a second-story bedroom but also a ground-floor room for use as a painting studio.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- Citations
- ^ Naifeh & Smith 2011, pp. 701–7
- ^ Pickvance 1984, p. 159
- ^ Naifeh & Smith 2011, pp. 741–3
- ^ Pickvance 1986, pp. 25–6
- ^ Naifeh & Smith 2011, p. 746
- ^ Naifeh & Smith 2011, p. 754
- Sources
- Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith (2011). Van Gogh: The Life. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9.
- Pickvance, Ronald (1984). Van Gogh in Arles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-87099-376-3.
- Pickvance, Ronald (1986). Van Gogh In Saint-Rémy and Auvers (exhibition catalog, Metropolitan Museum of Art). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abrams. ISBN 0-87099-477-8.
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