Ovid wrote that a shepherd, a farmer, and a fisherman stopped in their tracks to watch it, but in this painting, none of them seem to care about what's happening in the lower right corner.
W. H. Auden described the "expensive delicate ship" in this painting as having "somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on." Currently hanging in the Musee Royaux in Brussels, it contradicts Ovid's description of the titular event. Ovid wrote that a shepherd, a farmer, and a fisherman stopped in their tracks to watch it, but in this painting, none of them seem to care about what's happening in the lower right corner. FTP name this painting by Pieter Bruegel the elder, which depicts a youth plummeting to his death amidst a cloud of feathers.
W. H. Auden described the "expensive delicate ship" in this painting as having "somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on."
{Landscape with} the {Fall of Icarus}