Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is an oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper.

[1][2][3] In Greek mythology, Icarus succeeded in flying, while attempting to escape from Crete, with wings made by his father Daedalus, using feathers secured with beeswax.

Tall and leafy trees frame the painting to the right; a seaside town stretches in the middle, overhung by fabulous cliffs, which are typical of de Momper and his group of Flemish landscapists.

In contrast to this, there is a Flemish proverb that goes "And the farmer continued to plough..." (En de boer ... hij ploegde voort) pointing out the ignorance of people to fellow men's suffering.

As regards Bruegel's painting, it has been suggested by W. H. Auden in his 1938 poem, that it depicts humankind's indifference to suffering by highlighting the ordinary events which continue to occur, despite the unobserved death of Icarus.