Le Liseur (The reader)
Odilon Redon, 1892
Le Liseur (The reader) by Odilon Redon (1892) — Prints & Drawings. A museum-quality archival print, made to order. Explore it in 3D and buy any size inside the Orlonzo spatial gallery.
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Puis l'ange prit l'encensoir (And the angel took the censer)Et il avait dans sa main droit sept etoiles, et de sa bouch sortait une epee aigue a deux tranchants (And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword)Et il tombe du ciel une grande etoile ardente (And there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp)Une femme revêtue du Soleil (A woman clothed with the sun)Et un autre ange sortit du temple qui est au ciel, ayant lui aussi une faucille tranchante (And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also having a sharp sickle)Et le diable qui les seduisait, fut jete dans l'etang de feu et de soufre, ou es la b ete et le faux prophete (And the devil thatdeceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are)
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Tete d'Enfant avec Fleurs (Head of a Child with Flowers)Vieux Chevalier (Old Knight)Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the wavesChristElle tire de sa poitrine une eponge toute noire, la couvre de baisers (She draws from her bosom a sponge, perfectly black, and covers it with kisses)Hantise (Obsession)