File:Roman fresco depicting the fall of Icarus found in the Casa della Danzatrice aka Casa della Ballerino (Pompeii VI 17,10) 01.jpg
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English: Roman fresco depicting the fall of Icarus found in the Casa della Danzatrice aka Casa della Ballerino (Pompeii VI 17,10);
Translated Full Plate Description: "This painting, found with the two following ones, in the excavations of Civita, has suffered a lot, but it is worth a lot, in that it represents a fabulous adventure of which no monument of ancient art has preserved a complete description for us. Daedalus, wanting to escape the wrath of Minos, made for him and his son, Icarus, wings, with the help of which they could escape from the island of Crete. The ingenious project of Daedalus seemed to attain the end he had set for himself; but his son wished to approach too near the sun, which melted the wax by means of which his wings were fitted, and the imprudent youth fell into the sea, which took his name (1), and was called the Icarian Sea. "In our painting Daedalus is clothed in a reddish drapery attached to his belt; he swings in the air and casts a compassionate gaze on his unfortunate son. A fisherman, seated at the edge of the sea, holds a reed in his hand, and has his eyes fixed on the corpse of Icarus: Hos aliquis, tremula dum captât arundine pisces, Vidit et obstupuit; quique œthera carpere posnent, Credit esse deos (2). "He is astonished and no doubt takes for gods these men who have had the power to rise into the air. The surprise is also expressed in the attitude of the sailors who sail in a boat. The background of the painting is a sky. The shore, the water, the rocks, the trees and the structure built on the rock are of natural color. This building is perhaps the funeral monument of Icarus (3). "The second painting of this plate, surrounded by a black frame, represents a landscape painted in natural color. On a mound which occupies the middle rises a pilaster surrounded by shrubs, at the foot of which is placed a theater mask of a bronze color, crowned with ivy and green corymbs. There is also a yellow basket on which leans a thyrsus, and on the other side a pastoral stick. So, It is a bacchanalian subject." - Louis Barré, 1870 |
| Date | 1st century CE |
| Source | Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues |
| Author | unknown 1st century CE Roman artist (original fresco); probably Henri Roux the Elder, 1870 drawing of the original fresco; |
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