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This is one of the craziest alternative covers I've ever seen - Marvel Comics recreates one of Goya's most disturbing paintings, but with Venom being devoured instead of Saturn's son.
#Art: Saturn Devouring His Son (c 1819–1823), Francisco Goya/ Venom 30 alternative, Mike Mayhew
Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones was born #OnThisDay in 1742.
His most famous work "The Bard" (1774) is based on Thomas Gray’s poem and depicts #Wales' final bard cursing Edward I's invaders before leaping into the "endless night"
#Art: National Museum Wales
#SaturdayThoughts
THE WALES WINDOW
"This stained glass window in Birmingham, Alabama is one of the first depictions of a black Christ in the deep South. It was donated by the people of #Wales and created by Welsh artist John Petts after a church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan killed 4 girls in 1963."
The Lady of the Lake plays a pivotal role in Arthurian legend.
She gives King Arthur his sword Excalibur, raises Lancelot in her magical kingdom, and bewitches Merlin the wizard into teaching her some magic - which she then uses to imprison him in a tower.
#FolkloreThursday
"Something wicked this way comes"
Second Witch
William Shakespeare's Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
#Art: Witches Round the Cauldron
Daniel Gardner, 1775
National Portrait Gallery, London
Random question time: what is your favourite castle in Wales?
Not necessarily the biggest or fanciest, just your own personal favourite for whatever reason?
(Oh, and yes, there is a point to this!)
#WelshLandmarks
#Art: JMW Turner - Caernarfon/ Pembroke/ Laugharne/ Cilgerran