Landscape With The Fall of Icarus

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Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1558
oil on canvas
73.5 × 112 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

Landscape With the Fall of Icarus is a famous landscape by Pieter Bruegel. It was referred to in a poem of the same name by William Carlos Williams, and in W. H. Auden's poem Musée des Beaux-Arts, named after the museum in which the painting is housed.

The painting seems to depict humankind's indifference to suffering by highlighting the ordinary events which continue to occur, despite the unobserved death of the mythic figure Icarus, who is seen drowning in the bottom right area of the sea.

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