<P> Recently, a study of the underdrawing using infrared reflectography has been published . Reflectography is based on the fact that the infrared light penetrates all colors except black . As a result, the drawing, mostly black can be made visible . The interpretation of these reflectograms is of course more subjective, but in a global way, the drawing from the Fall of Icarus is not really different from other certified works from Peter Bruegel the Elder . This drawing is generally limited to a layout of the elements . Probably because the thin, weakly covering paint on white ground would hide imperfectly a detailed graphism . </P> <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>

Pieter bruegel the elder landscape with fall of icarus the viewer is directed