<P> A re-interpretation of the reflectograms in agreement with the other analysis suggested the conclusion that the work in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels is a panel painting transferred to canvas . The paint layer and maybe also the underdrawing have been severely damaged by this intervention as well as by two more relinings, responsible for the heavy overpainting . In the paint sample remains a fragment with structure and composition matching perfectly the technique of the large panels attributed to Peter Bruegel the Elder . It is therefore unlikely that this version of the Fall of Icarus might be from the hand of a copyist, except perhaps from P. Bruegel the Younger . Conversely, the Van Buuren copy with a different technique cannot be attributed to either Peter Bruegel . </P> <P> The painting is shown in Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), where a character opens a book of paintings to an image of it . On the facing page a description points out that the scene remains calm, the event of the fall hardly noticed . </P> <P> Eric Steele, whose film The Bridge (2006) documents the suicides of two - dozen people who jumped off the world's most popular suicide site - the Golden Gate Bridge - throughout 2004, has compared images captured in his documentary to those of Bruegel's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, because the fatal leaps go almost unnoticed by passersby . </P> <P> Composer Brian Ferneyhough's 1988 chamber work La Chute d'Icare was inspired by the painting: </P>

Pieter bruegel the elder landscape with the fall of icarus