Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole
Monastery and museum in Provence, France
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The Monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole (French: monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole) is a former Roman Catholic 10th-century Benedictine priory, then an 11th-century Augustinian 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 | 43.776668°N 4.835159°E |
Several rooms of the building have been converted into a museum to honor the famed Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, who stayed there in 1889–1890 at a time when the monastery had been converted to a lunatic asylum. Van Gogh created many paintings here, including the well-known 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]
