Peter Paul Rubens was Belgian painter the Fall of Phaeton (National Gallery of Art Washington) ,1604.

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), The Fall of Phaeton (details)

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), The Fall of Phaeton, oil on canvas

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Phaeton
Icarus

From 'The four disgracers', 1588

Prints made by: Hendrick Goltzius, after: Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem

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October 12, 1940: Early Western movie star Tom Mix died in a car crash, rolling his Cord Phaeton convertible into a dry wash (now called the Tom Mix Wash) near Florence, Arizona.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins

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I've feeling depressed; let's have some fun. The great thing about depictions of "The Fall of Phaeton" is they stick a horse's rear right there. it's a rule. Rubens!

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Astrology in my pocket
based on only whim
Rumours and boulders
rolling down hillsides
Equilibrium fraught
with epiphany on the fly
Errors and complications
felicity flavoured sky
Sophisticated
phaeton stigmata
Philanthropy gone awry


Rubens

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Rubens, "The Fall of Phaeton"
Phaeton begged his father Helios to let him pilot the chariot of the sun. This ended badly. Phaeton lost control and Zeus had to kill him to prevent the world from burning.

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the fall of phaeton - peter paul rubens

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Phaeton conduisant le char du Soleil, par Nicolas Bertin.

Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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The astonishing 'Phaeton', by Gustave Moreau, watercolour, 1878.

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