art_Museum, Paris - Icarus, Daedalus and Helios

Why do people paint such great images to ceilings - to break our necks. This image actually makes perfect sense up there - since it all happened in the sky above us.

This is a wonderful depiction of the whole event. Anyone knows the artist?

Part of the Art Motive Series: "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus"

orangeguru (12-15 20:39) | Permalink
Tags: Daedalus and Icarus, greek myth, Helios, male, painting

15. December 2007 -- Icarus and Daedalus stamp design
15. December 2007 -- Jean Bouchet - Daedalus and Icarus escape 1500s
15. December 2007 -- Henry Matisse - Icarus 1847
15. December 2007 -- Domenico Piola - Daedalus and Icarus 1670
15. December 2007 -- Charles-Paul Landon - Daedalus and Icarus 1799
15. December 2007 -- Lord Frederic Leighton - Icarus 1869
15. December 2007 -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1558
15. December 2007 -- Odilon Redon - The Fall of Icarus
15. December 2007 -- Marc Chagall - The Fall of Icarus 1975
15. December 2007 -- Herbert James Draper - Lament for Icarus 1898
15. December 2007 -- Art Motive: The Story of Icarus and Daedalus
15. December 2007 -- The Story of Daedalus

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