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"Art is not submission and rules, but a demon which smashes the moulds ...Greco's inner-archangel's breast had thrust him on savage freedom's single hope, this world's most excellent garret"  Nikos Kazantzakis

First Cubist El Greco died #OTD 1614 in Toledo.

The weaving of stories into concert performances of music - Bedřich Smetana’s “Vltava”, or “Die Moldau”, the second part of his “Má Vlast” cycle of six symphonic poems, premiered #OTD 1875 in Prague.

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"We see represented in him genius of a high order ... a versatile fancy, a poetic perception of beauty, a quaint, delicate humor, a wonderful grasp of whatever is weird and mysterious" (S.G.W. Benjamin)
#BOTD 1852: Painter of Shakespearean & Arthurian scenes Edwin Austin Abbey

It's *that* time of the week again...

April Fool's Day and @WyrdWednesday - We'll RT #WyrdWednesday things tomorrow after 0900 AM GMT.

Warning: Sharing Corona-related hoaxes with this # gets you cursed until the thirteenth generation of your race will have disappeared!

"Appear, flickering fire,
Encircle the rock with thy flame!
Loge! Loge! Appear!"

In Norse mythology, Logi, Loge (Old Norse "fire") or Hálogi ("High Flame") is a fire giant, god and personification of fire.

A "fire away" feature for #MythologyMonday

@VeraNijveld Bauer and Kittelsen... or do you mean the Victorian slang term for "Scandinavians"? :-) And yes, I do like Pieck!

“She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure
So if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells”

Tongue twister referencing palaeontologist Mary Anning #FolkloreThursday

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50 years of bloody civil war were the price the Merovingian Franks had to pay for the feud between Fredegund of Neustria & Brunhilda of Austrasia during the 7th century. It may well be echoed in the Nibelungenlied's queenly quarrel of Kriemhild & Brunhild.
#FolkloreThursday

“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.” ( J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)

So, we have #mythologymonday , #FairyTaleTuesday & #folklorethursday ... but Wednesday? Any idea what to do with a Wednesday? Or am I missing something?

🖼️ #Dulac , #Rackham , #Kittelsen

Half a long life spent as sailor and the other half as painter, unsurprisingly (but not exclusively) of marine art of the Age of Sail: Nicholas Pocock, b. #OTD 1740 in Bristol.
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Wreck, 1811
Fleet of East Indiamen, 1803
'Victory' in Naples Bay, 1804
Duckworth's Action, 1808