The myth of "Daedalus and Icarus" told using art and quotations from the story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis."

1. The myth of Daedalus and
Icarus
Told through art
and
quotes from Ovid’s The Metamorphsis

2. Charles de Brun, Daedalus and Icarus, 1645
“He may thwart our escape
by land or sea” Daedalus
said, “but the sky is surely
open to us. We will go that
way. Minos rules
everything but he does not
rule the heavens.”

3. Johnathan Clarke. Monument to Daedalus.
1993. Norwich, Great Britain.
So he applied his
thought to new
invention and altered
the natural order of
things.

4. Ancient Roman relief in Szony, Hungary
Daedalus laid down lines of feathers….so
that you might think they had grown like
that, on a slant…then he fastened them…

5. Daedalus and Icarus bas relief in Villa
Albani, Rome 18th
century
His son Icarus stood
next to him not realizing
that he was handling
things that would
endanger him.

6. Augusto Giacomo. Daedalus and Icarus,
1630
“Let me warn you,
Icarus to take the
middle way,
in case the moisture
weighs down your wings
if you fly too low, or if
you fly to high the sun
scorches them.”

7. Wow Comics, The Story of Icarus. Early 20th
c.
Travel between the
extremes…take the
course I show you.

8. Andrea Sacchi. Daedalus and Icarus,
1645.
While he worked and
issued his warnings the
ageing man’s cheeks
were wet with tears.

9. Roger, Brown. The flight of Daedalus and Icarus. Mural. 120
N. LaSalle St., Chicago
Daedalus, lifting upward on his
wings, flew ahead like a bird
leading her fledglings…into the
empty air.

10. Some ploughman,
resting on the
handles of his
plough saw them,
perhaps, and stood
there amazed.
Bruegel the Elder. Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus, 1590-95

11. The boy began to
delight in his daring
flight
Ozone, Icarus, 21st
century tattoo

12. Henri Matisse. The Fall of Icarus. 1946.
Drawn by desire for the
heavens, soared higher

13. Derek Riggs, album art for Piece of Mind
album, 1983.
His nearness to the
devouring sun softened
the fragrant wax that
held his wings.

14. Antonio Tempesta, The Fall of Icarus, 1606
He flailed with bare arms

15. Peter Paul Reubens, Fall of Icarus, 1636
But losing his oar-like
wings, could not ride the
air.

16. Rinaldo Palluzi, Icarus, 1959
Even as his mouth was
calling his father’s
name it vanished into
the dark blue sea.

17. Rebecca Matte. Icarus and Daedalus. 1922
Daedalus laid the body of
his child to rest.