Analysis Of Herbert James Draper's The Lament Of Icarus

Herbert James Draper is a painter whom is renown for painting mythological marine subjects, escapes his niche and paints a tragic scene in which Icarus, son of Daedalus, is lying dead in witness of three women whom lament for his passing in his work “The Lament for Icarus.” Herbert James Draper had mainly focused on painting mythological creatures earlier in his career. Yet, as time progressed, the mass of patrons had become less interested in such topics and more interested in portraits. So, Draper had altered his focus to painting portraits of young nude women. Lucky guy. He had been born in London, 1864, and was educated at the Bruce Castle School in Tottenham. Later he studied art at the Royal Academy. His work “The Lament of Icarus” had won his the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in …show more content…
This myth just got weird, because Poseidon had gifted a bull to Minos, and Minotaurs are not delivered by Storks. The Minotaur had been receiving human sacrifices from King Minos from the city of Athens. Theseus, the heroic king of Athens, volunteered himself to slay the Minotaur to end the Human Sacrafices. Upon arriving to Crete, Daedalus revealed to Theseus the secret of the Labyrinth to escape after slaying the man-beast Minotaur. When Minos had discovered Daedalus ' assistance with Theseus vistory, Minos had sentenced Daedalus and his son Icarus into the Labyrinth themselves. Daedalus, the MacGyver of Anciet Greek myth and master inventor, had come up with a plan to free himself and his son from the Labyrinth. Daedalus would feed the birds whom would perch upon the balcony of the Labyrinth and collect the feathers which would be left behind. Daedalus then constructed wings from wax from the candles and the collected feathers for both Icarus and