Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole
Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole is located in France
Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Location within France
Monastery information
Full nameMonastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Established11th century
DisestablishedFrench Revolution
DioceseAvignon
Architecture
Functional statussecularized
Heritage designationNational Historical Monument
Designated date1883
StyleRomanesque
Site
Coordinates43°46′36″N 4°50′07″E / 43.776668°N 4.835159°E / 43.776668; 4.835159

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.

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, Gogh created his reputed Magnum Opus, later titled the “Starry Night”.

History

The monastery was built in the 11th century. Franciscan monks established a psychiatric asylum there in 1605.

Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh's room in Saint-Paul de Mausole

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
  1. ↑ Naifeh & Smith 2011, pp. 701–7
  2. ↑ Pickvance 1984, p. 159
  3. ↑ Naifeh & Smith 2011, pp. 741–3
  4. ↑ Pickvance 1986, pp. 25–6
  5. ↑ Naifeh & Smith 2011, p. 746
  6. ↑ 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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