Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole | |
Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole | |
![]() ![]() Location within France | |
Monastery information | |
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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°ECoordinates: 43°46′36″N 4°50′07″E / 43.776668°N 4.835159°E |
Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole (French: monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole) is a former monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France. Several rooms of the building have been converted into a museum to Vincent van Gogh, who stayed there in 1889–1890.
History[]
The monastery was built in the 11th century. Franciscan monks established a psychiatric asylum there in 1605.
Van Gogh[]
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[]
References[]
- 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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- Monuments historiques of Bouches-du-Rhône
- Vincent van Gogh
- Historic house museums in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Saint-Rémy-de-Provence