Icarus and 1566 Icarus Asteroid - Paris, France - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

This sculpture by Igor Mitoraj interestingly depicts Icarus not only without wings...but without arms. Other than the work being entitled "Icare" there is no way to identify the figure. The work simply depicts a huge nude man, with arms broken off mid-bicep. His eyes are closed as his face is directed downwards. The piece is dated 1999 and is located near Leonardo da Vinci University in Paris.

Wikipedia (visit link) tells us this about Icarus:

"Ovid's treatment of the Icarus myth and its connection with that of Phaëton influenced the mythological tradition in English literature as received and interpreted by major writers such as Chaucer,[9] Marlowe,[10] Shakespeare,[11] Milton,[12] and Joyce.[13] In Renaissance iconography, the significance of Icarus depends on context: in the Orion Fountain at Messina, he is one of many figures associated with water; but he is also shown on the Bankruptcy Court of the Amsterdam Town Hall - where he symbolizes high-flying ambition.[14]

The 16th-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, traditionally but perhaps erroneously attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was the inspiration for two of the 20th century's most notable ecphrastic English-language poems, "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams. Other English-language poems referencing the Icarus myth are "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" by Anne Sexton and "Mrs Icarus" by Carol Ann Duffy."

Wikipedia's article (visit link) informs us:
"1566 Icarus ...is an Apollo asteroid (a sub-class of near-Earth asteroid) that at perihelion comes closer to the Sun than Mercury, i.e. it is a Mercury-crossing asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun. It was discovered in 1949 by Walter Baade.

Icarus makes a close approach to Earth at gaps of 9, 19, or 38 years. Rarely, it comes as close as 6.4 Gm (16 lunar distances and 4 million miles), as it did on June 14, 1968. The last close approach was in 1996, at 15.1 Gm, almost 40 times as far as the Moon.[1] The next close approach will be June 16, 2015, at 8.1 Gm (5 million miles)."

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