🖼️ Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Monday, January 1, 1582 – December 31, 1625 All day

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas measuring 73.5 by 112 centimetres now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It was long thought to be by the leading painter of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 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 early copy by an unknown artist of Bruegel's lost original, perhaps from about 1558. According to the museum: "It is doubtful the execution is by Bruegel the Elder, but the composition can be said with certainty to be his", although recent technical research has re-opened the question. A second version, oil on wood, is currently located in Museum van Buuren, also in Brussels, attributed to the Bruegel circle. 1582–1625. Canvas and oil paint. 73.5 × 111 cm. In the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Northern Renaissance. Wiki link

🖼️ Landscape with the Fall of Icarus