CHAPELLE DE ROSEAIRE DE VENCE
- Henri Matisse
466 avenue Henri Matisse, 06140 Vence, France
Chapelle de Roseaire de Vence was was built and decorated between 1947 and 1951 by Henri Matisse for the Dominican sisters, and it was his final project.

He did the project for his nurse, who was a nun at the chapel.

Matisse was very involved in the project, and designed everything from the colorful stained glass windows, the priest’s ceremonial garments to the basins used for washing hands.




Inside the chapel, you find large stained glass windows composed of yellow, green and blue, flood the walls with light and the 3 large paintings in black lines on white ceramics which evoke Saint Dominic, the Nativity and the Way of the Cross. The majority of the work was done from bed in his old age.


