Last week, I came across a dramatic color-plate entitled “The Fall of Icarus” by the Dutch master, Peter Brueghel. The image refuses to leave me. We all recall the legend from Greek mythology.

Initially titled «The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil », the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, “The Fall of Icarus”. Picasso’s mural ...