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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Icarus Fallen
Alternate Title:
Icaro Caduto
Image View:
Overall view, seen from above; the effect is that Icarus has fallen from the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Creator:
Igor Mitoraj (Polish sculptor, 1944-2014)
Location:
exhibition: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Location Note:
Piazza dei Miracoli
GPS:
43.723497 10.396711
Date:
2014-2015 (exhibition)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Subjects:
allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); mythology (Classical); Angels
Description:
Originally part of the "Angeli" (Angels) exhibit (17th May, 2014, to 15th January, 2015) organized by the Opera Primiziale Pisana, the exhibition by Igor Mitoraj was part of a program to celebrate the 950th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of Pisa Cathedral. The large Fallen Icarus was still installed on the Piazza dei Miracoli as of 2017. The placement of Mitoraj’s works in an environment of such cultural and historical significance has been ongoing; in 2011 he exhibited at the Valley of Temples in Agrigento, Sicily. In 2016 30 sculptures were exhibited at Pompeii.
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
6A1-MITORAJ-IF-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Icarus Fallen