Monastère 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°46′36″N 4°50′07″E / 43.776668°N 4.835159°E |
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, van Gogh created his magnum opus, The Starry Night.