![]() ![]() The piece doesn’t need him front and center. The curious thing about this, in contrast to other portrayals, is how the titular character is painted in, almost as an afterthought. This is icarus, who infamy in mythological retellings have become have become a caricature in himself. XIR3675 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1555 (oil on canvas) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69) 73.5×112 cm Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (add.info.: Icarus seen with his legs thrashing in the sea ) Giraudon Flemish, out of copyright Only on closer inspection does one notice, out to the side of the painting, in the sea a pair of legs, belonging to a drowning man with feathers plucked strewn about floating over his receding form. For all intents and purposes, it is a serene day. Out in the distance, the townscape stretches out, serene and picturesque. And over into the waters a ship is preparing to set sail. ![]() Nearby, a shepherd with his guard hound is overlooking his flock. It depicts at first glance a pictorial representation of a typical day in any town or coast.Ī farmer is ploughing his fields for the next harvest. There is a belgian painting known as ‘ Landscape at the fall of Icarus’. In the grand scheme of things, ‘you’ don’t matter ![]() Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, born 1857 ![]()
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