Carlo Saraceni (1579-1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter. His The Fall of Icarus depicts Icarus falling down with his wings having been destroyed by the sun and his father flying next to him and reaching out to him. This scene takes place after my selection of the story ends, but the painting also includes in its foreground the onlookers mentioned in the last sentence of my passage, specifically the fisherman with a trembling rod. The addition of that specific detail is a clear sign that Saraceni had actually read the original Ovid when he made his painting. However, if he did in fact read it, it would seem strange that he would have so many differences to the scene one would imagine after reading the Ovid. Daedalus and Icarus are supposed to be leaving Crete for mainland Greece, so the scene should show just the open ocean and maybe Crete or some nearby island, although that would be stretching the text. Instead, Saraceni has as his background a gorgeous, mildly-forested countryside and what looks like a serene Italian lake, still enough to reflect the landscape. It seems if Icarus had fallen into such an ocean, he would have easily been able to survive its current and swim ashore, and perhaps do some sun-tanning after even. This inconsistency is likely because he made this painting among others in response to the heavily forested landscape paintings of Adam Elsheimer, a German painter resident in Rome at the time. Although Saraceni’s painting is less covered in trees than Elsheimer’s works, it shows remarkable similarities in the shape of the countrysides and the style. It also closely resembles Hans Bol's painting on my translation page, which was likely made before Saraceni's, and it's not inconceivable that he may have seen it and other similar paintings. Saraceni made a small effort to adapt his technique to Ovid’s story, but Ovid’s story does not conform to him very well at all, so perhaps this is as close a representation of the story possible without compromising Saraceni’s style, or perhaps he wanted to have the serene background be a purposeful contradiction to the main theme of the story in order to remove emphasis and make it seem less real, or rather to emphasize the darkness of the story with the contrast.