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Redon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (129 words) |
 | Historically the name "Redon" has also been used as "Rodon" to represent one of the Gods of the polytheistic ancient Illyrians. |
 | The God represented as "Redon" or "Rodon" corresponds to the "Lord of the Sea" or the "God of Water" identically as Poseidon has come to represent. |
 | Redon, a legendary king of the Britons referred to by Geoffrey of Monmouth. |
| Odilon Redon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (843 words) |
 | Odilon Redon (April 22, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. |
 | Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. |
 | They held, between their gold-edged frames of unpolished pearwood, undreamed-of images: a Merovingian-type head, resting upon a cup; a beareded man, reminiscent both of a Buddhist priest and a public orator, touching an enormous cannon-ball with his finger; a dreadful spider with a human face lodged in the centre of its body. |