#1: Visit the "Saint-Paul de Mausole" asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
That's where Vincent van Gogh created my favorite and his probably most famous painting of all time: The Starry Night. It shows the view outside of his sanatorium room window at the commune Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. I just really hope that I get to see that view myself someday.
The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh checked himself into Saint-Paul de Mausole. His doctor at that time, Théophile Zacharie Auguste Peyron, believed that he had a form of epilepsy. In a letter to Peyron Van Gogh described what it felt like when he had one of his attacks:
Again - speaking of my condition - I am so grateful for yet another thing. I've noticed that others, too, hear sounds and strange voices during their attacks, as I did, and that things seemed to change before their very eyes. And that lessened the horror with which I remembered my first attack, something that, when it comes upon you unexpectedly, cannot but frighten you terribly. Once you know it is part of the illness, you accept it like anything else ... For the suffering and the anguish are not funny when you are having an attack. (May 22, 1889)
Here are some pictures of the asylum and other paintings of his:
Fountain in the Garden of the Hospital Saint-Paul - Vincent van Gogh
Montagne des Deux Trous - Vincent van Gogh
Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses - Vincent van Gogh
Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital - Vincent van Gogh
Wild Roses - Vincent van Gogh
Irises - Vincent van Gogh
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