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Copy after Giulio Romano's Fall of Icarus
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About this work
Having flown too close to the sun, Icarus plummets from the sky as the wax securing his makeshift wings melts, and the straps unravel. His father Daedelus, who invented the wings, watches in horror as his son begins a deadly fall. Punished for failing to heed his father’s warning and attempting to enter the realm of the gods, Icarus was a moral reminder to Renaissance viewers of human fallibility and the risks of excessive pride.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCopy after Giulio Romano's Fall of Icarus, after 1536. After Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99–1546). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with lead white; sheet: 39.8 x 29.3 cm (15 11/16 x 11 9/16 in.); secondary support: 41.9 x 31.6 cm (16 1/2 x 12 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Robert A. Frary in memory of I. T. Frary, 1992.90
