A theme that is the antidote to puerile anime and antiseptic nature photos. Before screens took over the world, visual media was predominantly paintings by great artists who enriched us and made us look at the world in a different way.
From Wikipedia:
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas measuring 73.5 by 112 centimetres currently displayed in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It was long thought to be by the leading painter of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Year:c. 1560
Notice in front of the ship on the right, Icarus falling into the sea!
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Nice! Could you share title and author too?
From Wikipedia: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas measuring 73.5 by 112 centimetres currently displayed in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It was long thought to be by the leading painter of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Year:c. 1560
Notice in front of the ship on the right, Icarus falling into the sea!