The story of Daedalus and Icarus in the Greek Mythology
What Bruegel depicted are fisherman, ploughman, and shepherd working dilligently and not noticing
the scene that Icarus was just dropping from the sky and drowning in front of the fisherman.
It is said Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is Bruegel`s only work on Greek mythology.
This painting represents the moral lesson which the story of Icarus`s fate is to be doomed for going
beyond his own depth.

The Ekphrastic reading of Landscape with teh Fall of Icarus
1. W.H.Auden`s "Musee des Beaux Arts"
2. William Carlos William`sLandscape withe the Fall of Icarus

Close reading the following parts of this painting.

Detail of Landscape of the Fall of Icarus