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Attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1655, oil on panel, 2' 5" x 3' 8", Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels, Image in the Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1655, oil on panel, 2' 5

Bruegel, Williams and Hubris

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams (1962)   According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of … Continue reading