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The mental hospital where Van Gogh stayed...and painted! |
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| Not your traditional carousel- look closely, and you'll see a taureau (bull) and an âne (donkey), both very common in the region and both consumed in the form of "saucisse" (sausage). In fact, I saw some really good-looking saucisse de taureau at the outdoor market. I'm not quite sure if I could ever get myself to try it, though: my high school mascot was the bull, and my college mascot is a mule...what are you trying to tell me, France?!? |
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| St. Rémy! |
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| Un autre l'arc de triomphe...un peu detruit |
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| Le mas de la Pyramide. ("mas" is a term in provencal, the regional language of Provence, and it refers to a farm.) |
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| Van Gogh painted these exact oliviers! |
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| Les oliviers |
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| The only non-landscape work by Van Gogh of St. Rémy |
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| Look closely and you'll see a church steeple believed to be the very one that inspired Van Gogh's 'La nuit étoilée' (Starry Starry Night)! |
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| The rest of the landscape in the painting, however, is seen in the opposite direction! Either Van Gogh decided to combine the two views, or the painting is purely imaginative. What do you think? |
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