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Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family.Redon's father made his fortune in the slave trade in Louisiana in the 1830s. [1] Redon was conceived in New Orleans and the couple made the transatlantic journey back to France while his mother Marie Guérin, a French Creole woman, was pregnant with his brother Gaston. [1]
English: c. 1899 painting by Odilon Redon, Le Mort de Bouddha (The Death of Buddha). According to "Odilon Redon. Communiqué de presse. 2 février 18 mai 2014. Fondation Beyeler", the painting is found at Millicent Rogers private collection and has the dimensions of 49 x 39,5 cm
The Dial published art as well as poetry and essays, with artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Odilon Redon, through Oskar Kokoschka, Constantin Brâncuși, and Edvard Munch, and Georgia O'Keeffe and Joseph Stella.
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[6] [7] Sariputta was considered the Buddha's right hand disciple, while Moggallana was considered his left hand disciple. [1] According to Buddhist texts, Sariputta and Moggallana both died a few months before the Buddha. Accounts of Sariputta's death state that he died peacefully in his hometown and was cremated in the city of Rājagaha.
Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the Kröller-Müller Museum. Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality.The story, commonly known as "Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria (around 7th century BC).
The Cyclops (Le Cyclope in French) is a painting by Odilon Redon that depicts the myth of the love of Polyphemus for the naiad Galatea. It was painted in oils on board, then mounted on wood, and is now in the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. [1] The painting has been variously dated between 1898 and 1914.
Birth of the Buddha, Lorian Tangai, Gandhara.The Buddha is shown twice: being received by Indra, and then standing up immediately after. The iconography of the events reflects the elaborated versions of the Buddha's life story that had become established from about 100 AD in Gandharan art and elsewhere, such as Sanchi and Barhut, and were given detailed depictions in cycles of scenes ...