All season long, the good people behind the GoT Territory campaign have been drawing attention to the role Game of Thrones has played in Northern Ireland, where the much of the show has filmed, by mounting a series of elaborate projects. They’ve made beautifully carved doors based off each episode, created stamps with Westerosi symbols on them, and even created a set of Valyrian steel kitchen knives.
Now, for their most ambitious project yet, they’ve enlisted an art restorer to recreate a famous painting of a rural Northern Irish landscape—”Landscape with Sheep” by William Mark Fisher—and given it a few new touches. Here’s the original painting…
…and here’s GoT Territory’s updated version.
There’s no painting so beautiful that adding Wun Wun the giant and a dragon can’t improve it.
The painting now hangs side by side with the original in the Ulster museum in Belfast, where it will stay until September. Below, check out a video of museum patrons noticing that something’s a little off about this new work.
As the video points out, Game of Thrones has been filming in Northern Ireland for six years. With the show coming to an end in a couple of years, it’s awesome that GoT Territory has been making the most of the ride while it lasts.
It isn’t done, either. We’ll be bringing you more information about GoT Territory as Game of Thrones Season 6 drives toward a conclusion.