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Odilon Redon's Monastery Murals Were Hiding an Art History Surprise

Since 1911, murals by French Symbolist Odilon Redon have graced the library walls of the Abbaye de Fontfroide, an 11th-century Cistercian monastery in Narbonne, France. When specialists took three of them down, what lay beneath was hailed as a discovery for the history of art.