The article discusses the painting "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in relation to the characters Daedalus and Icarus in the poem "Tristia," by Ovid. Topics include the painting "Pasiphaë" by Jackson Pollock, the poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, and the inspiration of paintings by literature or mythology.