Sunday, June 28, 2009
Carlo Saraceni's Icarus Series
Carlo Saraceni, an Italian painter of the early Baroque period (born 1579, died 1620), painted a series of three works on copper in 1606-1607 depicting the Icarus myth. They are, from top to bottom, "Landscape With The Flight of Icarus," "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus," and "Landscape With the Burial of Icarus."
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