Icarus at The Petit Palais, Paris

This is a bronze sculpture by Paul Landowski (1875 - 1961) completed in 1947 depicting the story of The Fall of Icarus. In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a clew (or ball of string) in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Daedalus tried his wings first, but before taking off from the island, warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared into the sky, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which due to the heat melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him. The Flight of Icarus, Jacob Peter Gowy This object is part of Scan The World. Scan the World is a non-profit initiative introduced by MyMiniFactory, through which we are creating a digital archive of fully 3D printable sculptures, artworks and landmarks from across the globe for the public to access for free. Scan the World is an open source, community effort, if you have interesting items around you and would like to contribute, email [e-mail] to find out how you can help.本作品为保罗·兰多夫斯基（Paul Landowski，1875-1961）于1947年完成的青铜雕塑，主题为《伊卡洛斯的坠落（The Fall of Icarus）》。 在希腊神话中，伊卡洛斯（Icarus）是迷宫（Labyrinth）的建造者、技艺卓绝的雅典工匠代达罗斯（Daedalus）之子。代达罗斯为克里特国王米诺斯（Minos）在其克诺索斯（Knossos）王宫附近修建了迷宫，用以囚禁半人半牛的怪物弥诺陶洛斯（Minotaur）——该怪物是米诺斯之妻与克里特公牛所生。因代达罗斯将线团（clew）赠予米诺斯的女儿阿里阿德涅（Ariadne），帮助米诺斯的敌国忒修斯（Theseus）成功穿越迷宫并击杀弥诺陶洛斯，米诺斯遂将代达罗斯父子囚禁于迷宫之中。 代达罗斯以蜂蜡与羽毛为自己与儿子打造了两副羽翼。他率先试飞，在离岛前告诫儿子，飞行时既不可过于贴近太阳，也不可过于靠近海面，需遵循既定的飞行轨迹。然而伊卡洛斯因飞行带来的眩晕感而忘乎所以，径直飞向高空，却不慎过于贴近太阳，高温融化了固定羽毛的蜂蜡。伊卡洛斯仍奋力振翅，却很快发现羽毛已尽数脱落，只剩双臂空挥，最终坠入海中，这片海域如今便以他的名字命名为伊卡里亚海（Icarian Sea），其毗邻的伊卡利亚岛（Icaria）位于萨摩斯岛（Samos）西南海域。 希腊化时代的作家们留下了欧赫墨罗斯式（euhemerising）的变体叙事：称二人从克里特岛的逃离实则是乘坐帕西法厄（Pasiphaë）提供的船只，代达罗斯在此过程中发明了最早的船帆以甩开米诺斯的追击舰队；而伊卡洛斯则在前往西西里岛的途中不慎落水溺亡。赫拉克勒斯（Heracles）为其修建了墓碑。 《伊卡洛斯的飞翔（The Flight of Icarus）》——雅各布·彼得·高伊（Jacob Peter Gowy） 作 本雕塑隶属于“扫描世界（Scan The World）”项目。该项目是由MyMiniFactory发起的非营利性公益计划，旨在打造一个全球可免费访问的开源数字档案库，收录全球各地可3D打印的雕塑、艺术品与地标建筑。“扫描世界”是一项开源社区共建项目，若您身边有值得分享的藏品，可发送邮件至[e-mail]了解参与贡献的方式。