Fall Of Icarus
by Los Angeles County Museum
Title
Fall Of Icarus
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Los Angeles County Museum
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Icarus engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, 1588. Part of a series entitled The Four Disgracers. Icarus was the son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father's warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea. Literary interpretation has found in the myth the structure and consequence of personal over-ambition.
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