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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
localId
156881
label
Copy after Giulio Romano's Fall of Icarus
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
156881
contentType
drawing
title
Copy after Giulio Romano's Fall of Icarus
description
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.
date
after 1536
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79946955
creators
4608
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
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.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1992.9
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with lead white
tombstone
Copy 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
supportMaterials
description
light brown laid paper, laid down on beige(1) wove paper
collection
DR - Italian
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38-79.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 73, no. 272
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25161388
creditline
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Robert A. Frary in memory of I. T. Frary
updatedAt
2026-05-29 08:09:55.262000
sourceId
156881
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Drawings
coll
DR - Italian
med
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with lead white
creatorTags
male
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image_url
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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2e5d2a04b0ac21e0