Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 37-54

Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 37-54

This is the third of four articles providing brief summaries and contents for this series of paintings telling myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and covers parts 37-54, from the fall of Icarus to King Midas. Jacob Peter Gowy (c 1615-1661), The Fall of Icarus (1635-7), oil on canvas, 195 x 180 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Wikimedia Commons. Daedalus and his son Icarus try to escape Crete using wings of feathers and wax. Icarus flies too near the s…