When critic Lloyd Schwartz went to Vienna to see a once-in-a-lifetime Bruegel exhibition, he was shocked to not see "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." Then he found out why it wasn't there.

Mallarmé was an inspiration for Henri Matisse, who illustrated an edition of his Poésies in 1932. Only later, however, did Matisse represent the theme of Icarus, and in a radical departure from ...

Art imitates life in Game 2 of the ALCS.

The angels are rectilinear in shape, tall, thin and wingless with masklike faces. They are hooded and face outward from Icarus. Date 1991 Control number IAS AL000320 Type Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture ...

Last week, I came across a dramatic color-plate entitled “The Fall of Icarus” by the Dutch master, Peter Brueghel. The image refuses to leave me.

Initially titled «The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil », the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, “The Fall of Icarus”. Picasso’s mural ...