Icari casus (Bruegel)

Icari casus

Icari casus, e fabula Ovidiana depictus,^[1] fuit tabula quam Petrus Bruegel senior circa annum 1558 creavisse censetur, cuius exemplar, ab alio quodam pigmentis oleis annis 1560-1570 refectum, nobis servatur. Quae pictura Bruxellis in Regiis Museis Belgicis ostenditur; ibi iacens in duabus carminibus recentioribus descripta est, Wystani Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts" et Gulielmi Caroli Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus".

Icarus in mare cadit: res singula ex hac pictura

Notae

1. Ovidius, Metamorphoses 8.183-235

Nexus externi

• Catalogus Museorum: imprime "4030" et selige "inventaire"
• Patrick Hunt, "Ekphrasis or Not? Ovid (Met. 8.183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

Bibliographia

• "Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts" in Harper's Magazine (Nov. 2008)
• Lyckle de Vries, "Bruegel's "Fall of Icarus": Ovid or Solomon?" in Simiolus vol. 30 (2003) pp. 4-18
• Mark J. Y. Van Strydonck et alii, "Radiocarbon Dating of Canvas Paintings: Two Case Studies" in Studies in Conservation vol. 43 (1998) pp. 209-214