Chrismate

By Chrismate

Les Alyscamps today

Les Alyscamps was a famous Christian necropolis in the Middle Ages. It was so well-known that corpses were being drifted downstream on the Rhone River in the purpose of being buried there.
Today, the sarcophagi have been removed and relocated in a museum. Arles has the second largest collection of sarcophagi in the world after Rome.
When Vincent Van Gogh was in Arles, he made a painting of the same alley: http://wallpaperswiki.com/les-alyscamps-vincent-van-gogh/
And as he asked Paul Gauguin to come and visit him while in Arles, Gauguin also painted Les Alyscamps: http://www.google.co.th/search?safe=off&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1152&bih=528&q=les+alyscamps+gauguin&oq=les+alyscamps&gs_l=img.1.5.0l5j0i24l4.47197.53338.1.55014.13.0.13.0.5.0.0.0..0.0....0...1ac.1.24.img..0.26.869.WgxtnEaunJk#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=j5GuTwCoRL5kyM%3A%3BnCMqcf2Rzx2F3M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faidart.fr%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2009%252F11%252F138a1-785x1024.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faidart.fr%252Fgalerie-maitres%252Fsymbolisme%252Fles-alyscamps-gauguin-1888-1336.html%3B785%3B1024
I pursue my exploration of places immortalized by Van Gogh when he was in Arles. I did twist the colors a bit to give the picture an older look.

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