Painting Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus

It was long thought to be by the leading painter of dutch and flemish renaissance painting pieter bruegel the elder.

Painting landscape with the fall of icarus. It is in oils whereas bruegels other paintings on canvas are in tempera. However following technical examinations in 1996 of the painting hanging in the brussels museum that attribution is regarded as very doubtful and the painting perhaps painted in the 1560s is now usually seen as a good ea. The painting is probably a version of a lost original by bruegel probably from the 1560s or soon after. The landscape with the fall of icarus painting is believed to have been completed around the 1560s and there still remains some question marks over whether pieter bruegel the elder was in fact the original artist but no other painters have ever been linked to it.

John sutherland describes the painting as. The painting was thought to have been the work of pieter bruegel the elder but technical examination conducted in 1998 and 2006 dispute its authenticity. Landscape with the fall of icarus is a painting in oil on canvas measuring 735 by 112 centimetres in the royal museums of fine arts of belgium in brussels. It shows the greek mythological figure icarus plunging into the sea in the lower right hand corner.

The landscape with the fall of icarus is a 289 inch 441 inch painting that hangs in the royal museums of fine arts of belgium in brussels. 1555 is an oil painting attributed to pieter bruegel the elder. The composition is so dazzling that numerous curators identify it as one of the famous painters creations. A parable on human aspiration.