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 | |
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 | 43.776668°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
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]
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