Aug 7
Left: George Frederic Watts, She Shall Be Called Woman, c. 1875–92, oil on canvas, Tate Britain."
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
— Genesis 2:23 (King James Version).
Right: Christopher Williams, Blodeuwedd (Flower Face), c. 1925–30, oil on canvas, Newport Museum and Art Gallery.
Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen. And they baptized her in the way they did at that time, and named her Blodeuedd.
— The Mabinogion, trans. Sioned Davies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), "Math son of Mathonwy".
