The fall of Icarus, 1573. Icarus has flown too near to the sun, the heat of which has destroyed his feather wings. He is plunging into the sea. It is an illustration to the poem 'In Astrologos' which is found in "Emblemata Liber" (The Book of Emblems). Opposite this is the autograph of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. Typically, an emblem book would comprise pages of a title, a picture, and a short poem that explained the allegorical meaning of the image named in the title and shown in the picture.
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The fall of Icarus, 1573. Icarus has flown too near to the sun, the heat of which has destroyed his feather wings. He is plunging into the sea. It is an illustration to the poem 'In Astrologos' which is found in "Emblemata Liber" (The Book of Emblems). Opposite this is the autograph of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. Typically, an emblem book would comprise pages of a title, a picture, and a short poem that explained the allegorical meaning of the image named in the title and shown in the picture.

Date

1573

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A16_072

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,5Mo) / 39,2cm x 31,9cm / 4634 x 3768 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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