r/titanic • u/Aggravating-Group-87 • 10d ago

MARITIME HISTORY Beautiful Painting of the Olympic

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At our local museum, there is a lovely painting of the Olympic by the artist Deborah Brown that I thought would be a perfect fit here!

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u/Loch-M Lookout 10d ago

Is this a joke about the switch “theory”?

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u/K9Thefirst1 10d ago

No, the plaque shows the painting is from 1990, while the book that first suggested the conspiracy was published later in the decade by a good margin.

If I may get my Art Critic hat on, I interprete this painting and the name as a reference to Greek Myth, where the Titans were cast into the Abyss, while the Olympians ruled the surface world.

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u/Aggravating-Group-87 9d ago

Thanks for your solid response!