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Van Gogh's room in Saint Paul de Mausole. Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, twelve miles northeast of Arles, lies just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France.Mentioned on several occasions by Nostradamus, who was born nearby and knew it a Franciscan convent, [1] it was originally an Augustinian priory dating from the 12th century, and has a particularly beautiful cloister. [2]
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, van Gogh created his magnum opus, The Starry Night.
In May 1889 Van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence. [2] [3] There Van Gogh had access to an adjacent cell he used as his studio. He was initially confined to the immediate asylum grounds and painted the world he saw from his room, such as ivy covered trees, lilacs, and irises of the garden.
According to Ronald Pickvance, "the view is unique in van Gogh's entire Saint-Remy oeuvre. It is the only work that affords a glimpse of the Romanesque tower of the original Augustinian monastery; in this respect, it can be compared with several views of the Romanesque tower of Saint-Trophime in Arles (e.g., F409, F515).
The Mulberry Tree is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist.The painting was created in October 1889. The Mulberry Tree is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh painted during this time at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
The Ravine of the Peyroulets, or The Ravine is an 1889 oil painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.It is part of a large series of paintings created during a time of extraordinary creative activity for the artist in the last year of his life, after he had committed himself to the Saint-Paul Asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
The Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is where Vincent van Gogh was a patient, from May 1889 to May 1890, and where he painted some of his most memorable works, including The Starry Night which features the town. The site is now named the Clinique Van Gogh for him. [7]
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