Van Gogh in
Cathédrale Saint-Trophime
Place de la République
The St-Trophime church still exists and can be visited.
Van Gogh in
Cathédrale Saint-Trophime
Vincent admired the entrance of the St-Trophime church on Place de la République. He wrote to his brother Theo in March 1888:
“There’s a Gothic porch here that I’m beginning to think is admirable, the porch of St Trophime, but it’s so cruel, so monstrous, like a Chinese nightmare, that even this beautiful monument in so grand a style seems to me to belong to another world, to which I’m as glad not to belong as to the glorious world of Nero the Roman.” Read the complete letter
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